 While some features were praised, the initial Zune has been regarded with derision and jokes for its bulky size and brown color, with "CNET" regarding it at best as a "high-profile underdog alternative to Apple's iPod" where other Windows Media MP3 players from Creative, iRiver, and Samsung had not succeeded.At midnight on December 31, 2008, many first generation Zune 30 models froze.Microsoft stated that the problem was caused by the internal clock driver written by Freescale and the way the device handles a leap year.