David Chartier

Shout out to the time #Microsoft invented a genuinely cool peer-to-peer song sharing feature for the #Zune

and then unironically, with a straight face, called it “squirting”

As in “hey [your name], squirt me that hot new song you like”

Continuing Microsoft’s long tradition, which lives to this day, of using a dart board of the worst possible words to name its products and features, like, 95% of the time

Feb 11 at 3:11pmWeb
Show threadbobocubedFeb 11

@chartier

Bless the heart of the naïve marketing intern who 'came up' with this term, and who obviously used Bing instead of Google when making sure it hadn't been used to describe anything before...

Show threadDavid ChartierFeb 11
@boelder Haha I dig the idea that Bing was the reason that made it through
Show threadJonas WisserFeb 11
@chartier The Zune itself was also a perfectly decent product. But… what the fuck is a Zune?
Show threadit's B! Cavello 🐝Feb 11
@jwisser @chartier Tbf, iPod is equally weird, imo
Show threadit's B! Cavello 🐝Feb 11
@jwisser @chartier I actually think it’s great that they came up with new names. Now, I feel like tech has lost its creativity. Give me more “bytes” and silly little words, stop calling things “memory” and “hallucinations” and whatever. Tell me it’s florping!
Show threadDavid ChartierFeb 11

@b_cavello @jwisser

Ladies and gentlemen

I am extremely excited to introduce

The all new Florp Glorp

Show threadit's B! Cavello 🐝Feb 11
@chartier @jwisser /the crowd goes wild
Show threadJack BrewsterFeb 11
@chartier @jwisser The Zune HD screen was pretty great. But that brown tho…
Show threadDavid ChartierFeb 11

@jackbrewster @jwisser I mean. At the time I think it looked awful too. Buuuuut

To give MS the rare feather in its cap, we *do* have tastefully designed brown gadgets and tools these days. One *could* argue, if they want, that the brown Zune may have been ahead of its time.

However, I do not want to argue that. 😆

Show threadJack BrewsterFeb 11
@chartier @jwisser My niece had one, which is how I know the screen was good. But it was the poopiest brown color and I just can’t understand what they were thinking 😄
Show threadAlex HoffmannFeb 11
@chartier @jackbrewster @jwisser it was nice to have colors other than white, silver, and black.
Show threadJack BrewsterFeb 11
@mangochutney @chartier @jwisser Fair
Show threadJustin MillerFeb 11
@chartier Wow, I had really suppressed that memory.