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In “color me confused” news, one new aspect of the Zune mysteriously not mentioned during last week’s exciting rollout was that now, courtesy of a partnership with McDonald’s, you, the Zune user, can wirelessly download music while underneath the magnificent golden arches. This is somewhat similar to the iPhone/Starbucks partnership. I haven’t been in a McDonald’s in ages, so maybe they’ve hipped up the place as far as recommending music goes; either way, I think I’ll just stick to my Double Double from In-N-Out and wait until I get home to download the new Taylor Swift single. [PR Newswire]

 
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  1. DeeW  |   Posted on Sep 16th, 2008

    McDonald’s is an obvious choice. Haven’ t you seen the (former) Zune Guy?

    [idolator.com]

    OK, that was mean of me. Very very mean. I’m going to burn in hell.

    But the technical reasons makes sense. They are partnering with companies that use Waveport for wifi – the first being McDonalds – so you can use their wifi free to download music or update your collection, since Waveport doesn’t require a web browser and Zune doesn’t have one.

    Zune still has one up on my iPod Nano, though: The Nano and Classic doesn’t even have wifi (which makes no damn sense at all to me).

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  2. Maura Johnston  |   Posted on Sep 16th, 2008

    @DW: It’s funny to me that, what, 10 years ago I was reading about McDonald’s efforts to engineer their seating so customers would be discouraged from sitting around because of the threat of back pain…

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  3. cassidy2099  |   Posted on Sep 16th, 2008

    Yeah, rub in that wonderful In and Out Burger access, forever denied to us on the east side of the country.

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  4. DeeW  |   Posted on Sep 16th, 2008

    @Maura Johnston: That’s really really depressing. Sooner or later, we’re going to be living in the Demolition Man world where Taco Bell is considered “fine dining”. Obesity, ftw!

    I hope I die before that happens.

    On the upsi– I mean, downside, you guys mentioning McDs has made me get a craving for one of their apple pies.

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  5. Chris Molanphy  |   Posted on Sep 16th, 2008

    @cassidy2099: Second that. Man, I wish we had In-N-Out in these parts.

    I understand the reason Microsoft needed to sign a deal with someone to supply free WiFi, Starbucks-style, is that the Zune can’t access browser-blocked nodes. (Which…I think? the iPhone/iPod Touch can access…not sure.)

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  6. KinetiQ  |   Posted on Sep 16th, 2008

    Wesley Willis was right! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!

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