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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Slow News Day

[clanky]

In related news, hydrogen based cars seem unlikely to replace traditional automobiles this year, due to their almost centurylong head start. Sigh. Oh slashdot, how far you have fallen

Shock, Amazement.

[drinkypoo]

Zune has half-assed wifi and an FM radio. iPod works great, looks great, weighs less, is smaller, and has a superior interface by all accounts. The WiFi could be a killer feature if it didn't suck, but it does, which means no squirting, which means there's really no fucking point to even having it. Oh yeah, and it's a Microsoft device which doesn't play PlaysForSure content. If that's not pathetic, I don't know what is. Oh wait, the fact that every Zune comes with a $1 licensing fee to some assholes who don't deserve a dime.

Re:The Zune is brown

[Anonymous Coward]

So you automatically associate brown with "turd", eh?
Pretty misanthropic attitude considering that over 3 billion people have a brown shade of skin.

Re:The Zune is brown

[The Ultimate Fartkno]

And fifty years ago, the Zune would be hanging upside down from a tree with a fork up its... erm... USB port?

Re:The Zune is brown

[Anonymous Coward]

Ha ha. Niggers.

Re:The Zune is brown

[Hippynz]

Let me buy a Zune so I can squirt all over you.

Another shit coloured shit probuct fro Microsoft.

Would suit Auckland New Zealand with their power brown outs.

Re:Did they plan on this?

[falcon5768]

you missed the best part.

It lost 4 billion dollars and finished a tiny bit ahead of the Gamecube.... WHICH MADE A PROFIT ON EVERY SYSTEM SOLD, unlike Microsoft who like Sony sold the systems for a loss.

Re:Zune Meme Analysis

[Ucklak]

Zune will only be popular if they give it away which may be the case.

At least an iPod will work as an external drive out of the box. Zune doesn't even have this functionality without some serious hacking. All it is is a DRM container for Windows.