Philip
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
UserName Aged Badly@dontreportme I have mine somewhere...I should dig it out. Would make a great door stop.
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
Banda BassottiIf you use witchsky.app, you can make them whatever word you want in the UI.
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?
Knud JahnkeIt might become the Blackberry of Blackberries or the DeLorean of DeLoreans.