Zune Software Coming to Smartphones

by Jordan Yerman | October 4, 2008 at 08:25 am

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Zune software on smartphones? OK, that's not a bad idea at all, and apparently it's in the works, accodring to the article I found via mobileburn. Personally I have a hard time believing that this was Redmond's plan all along, due to their "me-too" history of development (even Windows itself is a knockoff), but no doubt such deep-capability music software would add value to any given smartphone, provided that the overall platform were stable.

CIO: Why has Microsoft developed Zune?
Ballmer: At the end of the day, one of the big trends is that all content is going digital. And if we don’t have the software and services that are useful, helpful and valuable for the consumption of music and video, we are sort of not really a player.

Now, we built the Zune hardware with the Zune software - and what you’ll see more and more over time is that the Zune software will also be ported to and be more important not just with the hardware but on the PC, on Windows Mobile devices, etc.