Stone Cold Hate for Microsoft's Zune

Zune - interface screenshot, originally uploaded by guybo.

John Gruber, one of the funniest Mac bloggers around has some of the old SCH* for Microsoft's Zune music player.

I mean, if this is even vaguely the form factor of the device they plan to ship, it’s so shameless a rip-off that they might as well have called it the “xPod” or even the “Ipod” (“It’s a totally different name — we have a capital ‘I’, see!”). The scroll wheel, the sparsity of buttons, the plain white facade. But that “Microsoft Designs the iPod Package” video be damned, you just know there are executives at Microsoft dying to slap a logo on the front of this thing, right?

*Stone Cold Hate