Zune Sales Not So Bad After All

pyrbrand writes "Despite the iFanboy jabber that Zune sales were horrific, CNN has a story to the contrary. Turns out Zune was the #2 Digital Audio player in its first week of sales. Not a bad start for the challenger to the iPod throne. As others have pointed out the Amazon sales rank may have been thrown off by Zune sales being divided between the three colors."

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As the saying goes...

[Anonymous Coward]

There is a sucker born every minute ...

Re:As the saying goes...

[Walt Dismal]

In related news, 63,000 Microsoft employees returned their Zunes to the company store, saying, "I'll work for Microsoft, but there's a limit to how much torture I'll take."

Re:As the saying goes...

[Fred_A]

There is a sucker born every minute ...

Which is why Microsoft decided to sell squirters... :) They should go together like... ah, um, like things that go together very well ! :)

"Hey, suck on this squirt !"

Re:I thought I would point out

[Anonymous Coward]

What's a record player?

Re:Who's the "fanboy"?

[Kuciwalker]

Clearly that statement was designed so all the iFanboys would know to stop reading :P

Re:divided sales

[earnest murderer]

Damn, post *then* drink.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/5 1549011/ref=pd_ts_pg_1/103-5417193-5657455?ie=UTF8 &pg=1

Re:I thought I would point out

[moochfish]

How about the fact that an apple sleeve accessory is destroying it by over 30 slots?

Re:divided sales

[TheDugong]

"The real story here is that someone is buying the brown one. ;P"

Camoflage when the drop down an airliner's toilet?

Never a doubt that Zune would be number 2

[skingers6894]

Its just that Microsoft had to trample over the battered bodies of their "plays for sure" partners to get there.

Re:What can brown do for you

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah...

As long as it comes with BASH. Navigation made simple and intuitive.

Waiting for the T-Shirt

[hirschma]

"All I got for Xmas was a Brown Zune"

Re:Thanks! I can finally pirate my records!

[Who235]

I'm pretty sure the GP was referring to the other kind of DJ.

You know, the "throw your hands in the air" type who mixes, scratches, and crossfades?

Not the one who spun "The Chicken Dance" at your cousin's wedding.

Re:I thought I would point out

[thombone69]

Vinyl kicks ass. Still sounds better than CDs. MUCH warmer.

Re:For all you fanboys...

[Anonymous Coward]

Everyone's too busy imagining a beowulf cluster of zunes.

Re:Famous flameouts in tech history:

[MadMidnightBomber]

WindowsME aka WindowsMErde

Re:I bet the don't look at the Apple retail stores

[admactanium]

So do they also skip the Apple Store? You can makeany numbers you want if you ask the "correct" set of stores for their sales data.

in other news, the zune debuts as the #1 music player in the microsoft campus employee store. the three zunes sweep the top three spots followed by employee-discounted versions of Xbox360 mousepads and visualstudio baseball caps.

Re:divided sales

[not-enough-info]

Camoflage when the drop down an airliner's toilet?They have a blue one?

Bad Coding

[gsslay]

In all seriousness that's actually a great gift for someone with an old record collection which is pretty much everyone over 40 or 50.

How many people do you think falls into the category of being over 50 but not 40?

Re:divided sales

[kalidasa]

Why? They've been PHB baiting for 20 years.

Re:I thought I would point out

[LunaticTippy]

I play CDs by grinding them in a circular pattern in a pan of gravel. They sound much warmer than vinyl.

Proper care is essential. I clean them before each use with bleach and steel wool, then tumble dry on low.