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A Million Zunes Sold
According to Robbie Bach, Microsoft's president of the Entertainment and Devices Division, Zune has already met the goal of 1.000.000 players sold, set at launch for the end of June. He also confirms that new Zune things will come in this fall, talks (not) about the Zune Phone, the new Watermelon Red Zune, the Zune Marketplace and of course Xbox 360.
...and don't forget - there's four less iPods in circulation since they put out that 'Bite Me' display unit.
I've only been holding off on buying a Zune because of the colour.
Now, at long last, a Watermelon Zune! It's as hip as a watermelon, and twice as easy to use!
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Pdeople are probably too embarrassed to use them in public.
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A million zunes sold, and 250,000 returned because they weren't ipods.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Yeah... The Zune is something you only show to your very closest friends, amongst nervous laughter, as you explain to them the embarrassing chain of events that led you to buying it.
So, if you have less than a hundred very close friends, you're not likely to have seen one.
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At least it seems to be selling better than Vista!
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it's 1,000,000 patents infringed and 235 Zunes sold
Microsoft run a Student Partners program (cheap grass roots marketing). You advertise us on campus, we'll give you prizes.
The winner of the award this year was due to get a Zune... however, due to it not being lanuched over here yet, they had to give away a Creative Zen (if I remember rightly). Oops.
What is Steve Ballmer's uncle going to do with 1000000 zunes?
Copyright infringement is "piracy" in the same way DRM is "consumer rape"
Aha! You made the same mistake the MS press-monkey made when reading the original memo from Bill... "1.000.000" is not in fact the Eurpoean number format for "one million", but rather the US number format for "one"... Bill himself.
Even Steve got an iPod instead, although he won't admit to it.
I typically look to the underground OSS crowd to be the purveyors of hip.
I work in a school, and what the kids carry around in their backpacks is a pretty good indicator of the general popularity of the product.
So far, most popular things I see in kids hands are iPods, PSPs (the little kids have Nintendo DS lites) and every type of cell phone on the planet.
This year, I only saw one kid with a Zune. She said she was sorry she bought it since all the accessories she wanted to buy only worked with iPod.
So if kids (or their parents) aren't buying Zune, who is?
-ted