amazon.com — How is Micosoft's Zune doing? It's hovering around #18 or #19. The List updates every hour -- this order is as of 2:55pm Sunday (Nov 26). It may be interesting to see what moves up and down the list as the shopping season progresses
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greyareaNov 27, 2006
"Oh i see, the talking point was that the Zune was to have 50% of the market in TWO WEEKS. If it did not, then the fankids will paint it as a failure. Only a retard would see logic in that."And yet stories of Zune flying off the shelves seem to be strangely muted.
collywollyNov 27, 2006
Hey how about we compare two other products from these companies, computers!MS has around 95% of the market Apple has very little. Apple is a faillure. Yay!See how rediculous you fanboys look.......
noahhowardNov 27, 2006
Nope, 4% doesn't cut it, but ease of use does it for lots of people. Keeping my family's MS machines up to date is annoying as hell, tons of extra step that don't need to be there.
jbelkinNov 27, 2006
MS's main problem with the Zune is that instead of helping to build the WMA market, they splintered it further especially now that SAnDisk is creating a Real DRM music format so while mp3 has won the hearts & minds of conusmers (smart move emusic), the rest of the online store purchase choices are AAC, WMA, WMA Zune & Real/SanDisk. Instead of trying to build a viable hardware, software & store to compete with Apple, all MS did was say, we're taking the ball and going home so now instead of Apple vs MS, it's really MS vs WMA vs Real/SAnDisk further confusing the consumer who will actually just throw up their hands and go buy an ipod.Even if you discount the fact MS is losing money on every XBox, at least the XBox has an advantage over a gaming PC - it's way cheaper, less OS issues and had Halo - what does the Zune have? Nothing. It's heavier, as expensive, more complicated to setup, more complicated to buy tracks (plus a lot less non music selection) plus a host of other issues - it's not really clear to most consumers (versus Xbox & gaming PC) why they should buy one. When I was just on Amazon, the Zune was at 48 behind such exciting things such as a camera case.The difference between 48 and 15 probably isn't more than a couple hundred units but it's still telling. I wonder what the return rate will be on 12/26 ...
Closed AccountNov 27, 2006
@rickcarsonI wouldn't blame him. I haven't used the Zune Software, but I have been looking into getting one recently, mainly because iTunes is such a crappy program (...it makes you install quicktime, it's a giant memory hog for just a media player, it's only available by a 60mb+ download, I can no longer restore my iPod myself because they tried to integrate this into iTunes and did a s**tty job of it...I could go on...). Honestly, the only thing that keeps me from getting a Zune right now is the fact that I can't install the software without Windows updates, and I can't get Windows updates without a legal copy of Windows.
delmonteNov 28, 2006
What I find incredibly funny (and scary at the same time) is how suddenly audio-recording is not mentioned anymore as a built-in feature that the iPod lack. And by some "odd" coincidence, this is since the Zune was announced without recording capabilities.Before, people were saying "Other players have FM and audio recording, unlike the iPod!". Now it seems that only the FM radio matters...
delmonteNov 28, 2006
"much larger screen"If you can say that the screen is "much larger", then you'll have to say that the Zune itself is also much larger too (in volume).
delmonteNov 28, 2006
"The screen is a lot bigger than the the iPod's screen."It's .5 inch bigger and at the same resolution as the iPod, 320x240... big deal...You can't be serious... half an inch bigger! The difference is so minimal that just holding an iPod two inches closer to your face will compensate. (OMG! two inches closer, I'll look like a goon!)The Zune is much bigger in volume, and it makes a real difference, holding it farther from your face won't make it less bulky.
delmonteNov 28, 2006
Oh so suddenly choice is not good anymore? You'd rather be limited to a single 30Gb HDD bulky model in 3 drab colors?
delmonteNov 28, 2006
Adding the context doesn't make your reply more valuable... If we add the 15 iPod models sales numbers, that will sure make a very big number compared to the Zune, I guess you'd want to hide this fact by putting Zune at number 2 or 3 behind all iPods combined at number 1 even though the Zune would have 30 times less the sales share?
nardukDec 1, 2006
This is the title of the story, "Apple's iPods take Top 5 Spots for MP3 Players on Amazon (8 in Top 10!)"Not news.