Zune has become Xbox Music. Yes Zune is dead and it will be missed by the few that actually gave it a chance. Zune failed for one reason and one reason only. In a world where music services are cross platform Zune simply stayed on Windows and Windows Phone 7. Zune didn't even leave the country until very recently and that was only because of Windows Phone. So what has changed...? Well in short nothing. Xbox Music has the same exact problems Zune had and actually they took away features. Basically Zune was a Facebook for music. In theory you were supposed to share songs with friends and comment on what they were listening to. The Zune team even went to as far to implement something like Achievements which gave you a badge for listening to artists or songs a certain amount of times. It was a great concept failed execution. Basically Spotify is what Zune should of been, a complete social music experience. Xbox Music is going to suffer the same fate as Zune unless these problems are addressed and supposedly they are working on fixing it. Sometime soon a iOS and Android app are supposed to be released and when that day come Spotify will be dropped for good. Zunes Xbox Music's song selection is far superior to Spotify's. Plus I'm still holding on to my $14.99 music subscription with 10 free songs a month. Xbox Music has promise, much like the Zune did but with the Xbox app a mess and no other phone support besides Windows Phone they don't have time to lose. It will be very interesting watch for sure. Stay tuned....
