???? – 2011murdered
Google Buzz
“Killed to make room for Google+, which didn't outlive it by much either”
“It synced over Wi-Fi and dreamed in 720p, quietly outclassing the competition nobody switched to.”
The Zune HD arrived on September 15, 2009, as Microsoft's direct answer to Apple's iPod Touch — a touchscreen media player with Wi-Fi syncing, Zune Marketplace access, and web browsing, in 16 and 32 GB sizes (a 64 GB model followed on April 9, 2010). Fans loved it because it quietly outclassed its rivals, thanks to an Nvidia Tegra chip that could push 720p video through the optional HDMI dock. That OLED screen, scale
It retired on October 3, 2011, after just two years — not murdered so much as honorably discharged from a fight Microsoft chose not to keep waging. What it left behind was the memory of a media player that was, by many accounts, simply good: elegant hardware, clever wireless syncing, and HD video out of a device the size of a deck of cards. Rest well, little Zune. You deserved more company.
Spotted something wrong? Every fact on this page traces to a dated source. Fixes make the graveyard better for everyone.
“Killed to make room for Google+, which didn't outlive it by much either”
“It turned the whole web into a tidy spreadsheet — order out of chaos, gone too soon”
“The first phone we stroked instead of pressed — it never stood a chance of being the last.”