Hey, it's your friend David Pierce, and I'm here to tell you before we get started that this is the halfway point of the first season of version history.

We're four episodes in, we got four more to do, and we're already working on the next batch.

And like we said at the beginning, these first eight episodes are all going to be on the Vergecast feed, the Virgin History feed, and the YouTube channel.

So you can watch them and listen to them anywhere, and the next several, however you've been getting them, you can keep getting them.

But after the first eight episodes, they're going to leave the Vergecast feed and the only way to get the podcast is going to be on the version history feed. It'll keep being on the Verges YouTube channel. So if you're watching there, you're good there. But please, please, please go subscribe to the version history feed. Like,

I'll just level with you. That is the feed that we care most about growing, especially in these early days. And that is, that is the thing that we can grow in order to continue to be able to do this

and to grow the show and keep doing new things with it. I care deeply about how that feed is going.

I hate looking at numbers and I look at that number more than I am proud of.

So if you can go subscribe to version history, wherever you get podcasts,

it will mean a great deal to me and all of us,

and it will make sure that you keep getting every single episode as soon as it's released.

I will stop giving you my speech now, and we will just get into version

history. Thank you, as always. Enjoy the show. It's the early 2000s, and all you want to do is listen

to some music. Best case scenario, you have the money to afford an iPod and the even more money

to afford songs at 99 cents apiece. Worst case scenario, you have like a MP3 player with a dying hard drive that you are desperately trying to keep alive. Maybe you're running around with a binder full of CDs like it's the 90s. Well, I have a better answer. It's a new device from Microsoft, and it lets you play music, listen to the radio, watch videos, look at pictures, and even share stuff with your friends.

It's called The Zune, and it is going to kill the iPod.

From the Verge and Vox Media, this is version history,

a show about the best and worst and strangest and most important products in tech history.

Today, we're talking music, and all of the ways the Z Zoom did not, in fact, kill the iPod.

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