Michael K
Matthew Haugheyearly but strong contender for tweet of the year
Erik Vorhes@mathowie oh my god
∴ esoterik ∴@mathowie they burned the ships but lost the war anyway
Ian Douglas Scott@mathowie Zune seems like a wonderful success in comparison.
But I guess E.T. for the Atari 2600 (a more apt comparison) doesn't work as a company name.
Willow (she/her)@MsHearthWitch @mathowie I haven't used a Zune (once upon the time I had a Creative Zen) but as I understand it wasn't a particularly bad product. Microsoft just waited to get into the mp3 player space until shortly before the first iPhone released.
Probably a bit late for that.
Flaming Cheeto
Korma Chameleon@mathowie remember Sun changed their stock symbol to Java, then they didn't exist anymore
Liminal witch 🧙♀️ Sarah@mathowie I love that Bsky has adopted the word tweet and that Mastodon has toots.
Marisa@mathowie omg. Zune... when Zune launched Microsoft was our client. We all used iPods at the time at the firm where I worked and we were told to *not* bring any Apple products to campus because msft didn't like it.
SooooOoooo, the owner of the firm thought it'd be a great idea to get us all Zunes! Except, that they were ugly, not as easy to use *and* if you were also running Windows Vista while trying to burn music onto the Zune...
If you know, you know... lol
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Ko Simon toku ingoa 
@mathowie wait, are they still “tweets” on bluesky?
@SimonCHulse that’s what I call them everywhere, since the original company no longer uses the name
thermonuclear small claims@SimonCHulse @mathowie I regret to inform you people on bluesky call them skeets
Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦"skeets"
Lukas
Aria.DNE [grim]@mathowie Or RIM changing their name to Blackberr- oh.
JK for real the BBs with full keyboard were the Business. But when they tried to go full touchscreen... Yikes.
Tor Iver Wilhelmsen@mathowie at least the Zune sold for a while. The Kin 1 and 2 phones were on the market foe like two weeks, and after they disappeared I talked to Microsoft employees who weren’t even aware they had existed.
Jared
ShnoofleBear /ʃnuːfɛlbɛːr/@mathowie It's short for Metastasis.
walkies enthusiast@mathowie they should be named cambridge analytica so theyre still coming out way up
Lori M Olson
Jhooper
not Evander Sinque@mathowie I thought they are called meta because they called everyone's metadata?