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I know. That's what a lot of folks have been saying about your points for awhile now. ;) <ducking>

FM and bigger screens have been on other MP3 players for years now and hasn't helped them out. Heck, other models have even had WiFi before. But here's hoping that those features will somehow make a difference for Microsoft none the less. There you go. Opinion and backup data all in one snide remark. :D

forums are for opinions!
 
you better be, opinion without data backing isn't convincing in any way.:D

Well, an unofficial list might be on Amazon.com's Bestsellers list, where the Zune comes in 17th amongst all MP3 players sold. I should also mention that as of right now, 11 of the items beating it are iPods of one flavor or another.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/172630/ref=pd_ts_e_nav/104-9593004-9508706

lol - there is a place for fa(x/ts) but its maily speculation.

Are you calling me f(at)?
 
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Reminds me of Sony's PSP.

They decided to target Nintendo's handheld market, where Nintendo had a 90% marketshare. Unlike the mp3 market, every five years or so everyone in the video game market has to buy new consoles to be able to play the latest releases, so since people are buying new hardware anyway, it's actually feasible to knock out the market leader (the original Playstation did it overnight).

The result? Sony managed to obtain a 10% marketshare and a reputation for lacking content (UMD and games both) for their platform, while taking a big fat loss.
 
Microsoft WebTV never took off.
I liked WebTV before MS acquired it and killed it to maintain their browser monopoly. WebTV was good in that you didn't need a computer to get Net access, but IMO was too limited in that you couldn't run, say Java or Flash, or all those .exe files that dumb PC users threw at you (forget if there even was Flash back then). Still it would have been good to get a separate community of TV browsers, as it would have set the stage for a decent small-screen Internet (what we should have had in mobile phone pages today).
 
Even though it's sucking in sales, I don't think they're going to have any problem hitting the million mark by June.
 
i'm not sure if there's some fudging of the numbers here, only because it first states that over one million have shipped and then it says sold. and honestly, there is quite a difference there. sure is easy to ship out 1million, its a different thing to sell them all too. :rolleyes:
 
The executive noted that Microsoft has sold "a little over a million" of the 30GB players by late May, putting it ahead of the million-unit target set for June.

Unforuntately, 750,000 of them were returned for suckitude. :)

However, the unofficial metric I've been using (Amazon sales) has certainly seen the Zune move forward in popuhilarity of sales.

The Zune is now #10 in the list! Nice job Zune!

Though, I've still never seen anyone using one. :confused:

For the sake of balance, I should note that in that top 25 on the list, 1 is a Zune and 14 are iPod variations. Make of that what you will.
 
MS doesn't seem to have made a press release about the Zune today.

It seems these are fairly unofficial numbers, which they aren't happy about, otherwise they'd have made a press release.
 
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