Subscribe RSS FeedNo lie, it’s true. Typcialy you can only brick your device if you are trying to hack it, but last night every 30GB MS Zune crashed and won’t reset, placing all of these devices on the same level as a brick. According to a news article here:
Microsoft is just squeezing in under the wire to claim the rights to “weirdest tech story of the year.”Last night at approximately 2 AM, every 30GB Zune model on the planet crashed at the exact same moment.
The Zunes reset, powered up, then froze on the loading bar screen, and no conventional method of resetting them appears to work.
This is brought to you courtesy of Microsoft, who has been selling a video game console with a nearly 100% fail rate for three years. The Zune situation is all the more disasterous however, seeing as all of them failed at the exact same moment, which people have taken to calling Y2K9. The comments on the situation on various websites are pretty hilarious, here are a few:
Confuscious says: “Buy An iPod”
I expected that this story would run on the Onion. I guess not. Is it even disappointing anymore that their product just suddenly crashes?
Apple? They authored a rushed (buggy) firmware, 2.1, but at least their devices work flawlessly. Oh, and not to mention Apple got their products out to market first.
I lawled at this. It’s too much. Check out the Gizmodo article on it and the comments: http://gizmodo.com/5121311/30gb-zunes-failing-everywhere-all-at-once (121+ pages of comments!)
–Joe