Microsoft Zune vs iTunes

Why Zune Pass?

Reason #1: $14.99 VS. $30,000

Say you and your friend each have a 120-gig music player. If you fill yours with a Zune Pass and your friend fills his with iTunes, your friend will have spent $29,985 more than you did for the same songs. Try the Max’d Calculator to see how much it would cost to fill your player.

Reason #2: BUYER'S REMORSE

If you end up not liking the tracks you downloaded using your Zune Pass, just delete them and download some more. Won’t cost you a cent extra. Meanwhile, your friend who paid per track is stuck—all sales are final at iTunes.

Reason #3: IT'S NOT A BUYER'S MARKET

It's a subscriber’s market. In this economy (or any, for that matter), does it really make sense to pay a whole dollar for a song when you could be downloading whole discographies for less than 50 cents a day?

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Song calculations based on 99 cents per song. Music capacity based on 4 minutes per song and 128-Kbps AAC encoding. Actual capacity varies by content.