Microsoft launches "Cash For Clunkers" program

08/15/09 09:13

Next month, Microsoft plans to introduce Zune HD, yet another iteration of the company’s less-than-blockbuster iPod knockoff. John Gruber of the always worthwhile Daring Fireball blog reports that third-party apps are definitely a part of the MS long-term strategy to create something just like Apple, only lamer and less popular.

Gruber was contacted by an iPhone developer who has been offered “a bucket of money” to port his app to the new Zune HD. The source passed on the offer, which presumably was a lot smaller than the bucket of money he’s been making from the iPhone, an existing mobile platform that’s less lame and more popular.

The Macinquirer has learned that other iPhone developers have had buckets dangled in front of their faces too, and several have actually taken the bait. From a confidential page deep in the bowels of the Redmond Death Star, here are the top five apps coming next month with launch of the Zune HD:

1. Zune Fart HD
2. Zune Flashlight HD
3. Zune Tech Support Finder HD
4. Pirate Eyepatch Simulator HD
5. Where’s My Bucket of Money?

Tech pundit-for-hire Rob Enderle calls the Zune HD “the long-awaited iPod/iPhone/AppleTV/BluRay/Healthcare Reform killer the world has been waiting for.” And so it goes.

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