While there has been no confirming story from anywhere else, the ‘scoop’ delivered to us this week by Bloomberg, about the ending of the Microsoft Zune product line is hardly going to win the Pulitzer prize ‘ we have widely predicted that ‘hardware’ based devices, such as the Kin, but also including the more prominent PlayStation Portable, would become software platforms on the wider plains of the smart phones and tablets. And given that we know that Nokia and Microsoft are midway through a program of rationalizing their mobile services ‘ including music services ‘ and that every future Nokia Smartphone could easily become a Zune player device, it would seem madness to continue with a device which is costing…