Zune! Zuuuuuuuune!

In technology news, the Zune (sounds like zoom) is still crap. Or, at least it looks like crap. The 4 and 8 gig Zune 2.0s will come in what Microslop euphemistically calls black, red, pink and green. More like pencil lead, over-ripe raspberry, screaming 12 year old, and baby puke. Apple did the right thing by toning down its garish colours into pastels, but once again the Zune misses the boat with four colours which are ALL ugly. Also, what is with the roundish squarish central button? With absolutely no marking on it to tell you what direction does what, you'll just have to guess until you get it right. Or activate the self-destruct so you can destroy this brick in a fun way and buy yourself an iPod. Oh, I should mention that there is a capacity gap in the line-up, too, between 8 and 80 GB. Sure, let's make a knock-off, screw it up, and market it as a 'killer'. Duh.

The Crave post (http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9789841-1.html?tag=bubbl_3) sums it up nicely:

" While the new Zunes seem like fun, they don't look like the iPod-pummeling horsemen of the apocalypse we were expecting."

So, as with Vista... Swing, and a miss.