iPod Has Nothing To Fear From Slow-Starting Zune

narramissic writes, "Looks like Apple's iPod has nothing to fear from Zune this holiday season. In a research note published Tuesday, PiperJaffray senior research analyst Gene Munster writes that 'during its launch week on Nov. 16, Zune held the seventh spot on online retailer Amazon.com's top 10 best-selling MP3 players list, and it fell from that spot to 13 on the list only five days after launch, on Nov. 20.' Even worse, only 8% of retailers surveyed by PiperJaffray recommend the Zune to customers, while 75% recommend Apple's iPod." The article notes Apple's 5-year headstart in the portable player market and Microsoft's stated intention to invest heavily in the Zune over the next several years.

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Re:The Zune is brown

[anaesthetica]

I'm really tired of seeing this gripe on Slashdot. Yes, they have a brown Zune. Guess why? Black people. It's to appeal to black people. Because there only are a total of 5 black people on the whole of Slashdot means apparently that no one here can figure this out.

It's not a turd, it's not some unappealing color. It's retro, 70's, chocolate, hipster, whatever. Please go ask your token black friend about Zune in brown and they will get it right off the bat without going through the white-geek-boy conniptions that all Slashdotters seem to exhibit on this issue.

Whether Microsoft's appeal to the African American demographic with a brown Zune will be any more successful than the Zune's appeal in general is, of course, up for speculation. But please please please stop going over this trope of how inconceivable it is to have brown Zune. It's not. It makes perfect sense to about 11% of America.