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Above is a test ad for a parody of Apple’s “Get a Mac” ads featuring Justin Long as a Mac and John Hodgman as a PC. If you watch the ad, you’ll see that the argument is that getting cool songs is really simple with a Zune, but not with an iPod.

The ad leaves out these fun little tidbits which I will share with you now:

1) That song your friend just shot you? It’s only good for three plays. After that, you have to buy it from the Zune store.

2) The ad seems to point out that you have to give out your credit card info to Apple to buy songs. And what do you use to buy music from the Zune store? Good faith? I.O.U.s? No, you pay $14.99 a month and don’t really get to own your music, but rather, just rent it. Also, forget about playing any song you got off of iTunes on your Zune.

3) Now subscription plans really depend on how much music you have and how much of it you plan to listen to and for how long. Personally, I like owning things I enjoy. If I don’t like a song, I can just get rid of it. Now lets say you have 20,000 songs. Well clearly, you’re not going to drop 20,000 to re-buy all of them so a subscription plan seems like a good idea. But I think it’s dumb to spend $150.00 a year on music that will never really be yours. Also, what happens in the even that the store flops? What happens if you miss a payment? Bye-bye music!

While it’s cool that Microsoft is just coming out an acknowledging Apple as its main competitor in the MP3 Player market, the dishonesty of this ad really irks me and people should know that the Zune is a player that may transfer songs wirelessly, but there are still a lot of strings attached.

Tags: gear, stupid //