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1. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2023 10:07:16 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

   • Kenny Blankenship
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   @pawlicker @DEERBLOOD @DW2 @Twoinchdestroya …..is that a ‘safemoon’ tattoo?

   • µPD7220 Enthusiast (pawlicker@outpoa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2023 10:10:22 JST µPD7220 Enthusiast

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     • Kenny Blankenship
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     That's the Microsoft Zune logo and he was heavily mocked by tech sites and social media back in the day for literally being both the definition of a walking billboard and one for a company that wasn't making a successful product.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2023 10:11:21 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @pawlicker @DEERBLOOD @DW2 @Twoinchdestroya Now he’s at least doing okay. I’ve heard nothing but good about the zune since its sunset. Seems like most consoooooomer tats I see are shit like game of thrones (in like, seasons 1-5) and marvel. So much worse

   • µPD7220 Enthusiast (pawlicker@outpoa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2023 10:17:34 JST µPD7220 Enthusiast

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     • Kenny Blankenship
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     I had a Zune when it was new and needless to say, it was the right product at sorely the wrong time, and it had the same issue iDevices had where you had to use a special program to sync them (but other devices at the same time had that issue too, like Dell's DJ players).
     
     It was highly polished, with an early version of the "Metro" UI (or rather modified Media Center UI for firmware 1.x), had a much bigger screen than the iPod 5/5.5/6th gen (the nanos copied the form factor), and IMO what killed it was mismanagement. Microsoft chose to buy Nokia and Danger and squandering both instead of making their own Zune phone, in fact a common post on the forums for the Zune back in the day was "where is the Zune phone at". If it had come out even 2 years before, it would have done much better, the problem is literally a few months later Apple announced the iPhone.
     
     As WP7 showed and NT having to be ported to phones showed, Microsoft also dropped the ball on that front too. They were behind Android and wanted to make a more "polished OS" as opposed to the anarchy of WinMo and the radical anarchy of early Android before Google began to dictate and force standards. They also were very strict about what hardware could technically run WP7/8, and they had the same issue with RT and currently Windows on ARM.
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   • Twoinchdestroya (twoinchdestroya@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2023 10:18:34 JST Twoinchdestroya

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @pawlicker @DEERBLOOD @DW2 Best tattoo in history was the guy who got R.I.P. Brian Griffin, when family guy killed the dog, then immediately brought back after 2 episodes.

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