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A Million Zunes Sold

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the zero-sold-to-anyone-i-know dept.

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.

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  1. Re:but ... by catwh0re · · Score: 0, Troll

    nah it's not that they sold a million units. they just sold 1.000000 It's just a significant figures thing.

  2. Re:10% of $product market... by je+ne+sais+quoi · · Score: 1, Troll
    Well, for one thing, the Zune doesn't have 10% of the market. That was one million zunes shipped, not sold. For another thing, he's probably artificially limiting the category the Zune is in, like only > 20Gb media players or something. If you want an alternate take from M$' perspective, try this one:

    ...one million units in seven months of sales is simply nothing in consumer electronics. In reality, Apple will sell roughly another twenty million iPods by June 2007 ... if Microsoft can meet its goal by stuffing the channel with unsold Zunes, just as it did with the Xbox.
    Admittedly, this guy is just as biased as the M$ guy.
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  3. Re:but ... by Professor_UNIX · · Score: 1, Troll

    I might have got one but have about 9Gb of music in Ogg Vorbis format and they don't support it.
    Well that was pretty stupid of you. If you would've ripped the music in MP3 format you could listen to it on nearly anything. The only people that use Ogg Vorbis are open source fanatics.
  4. Re:Same with the ipods back when they hit 1 mil. by lilfields · · Score: 0, Troll

    I was modded down because I said the iPod might not be God, and you were modded up for defending it? Talk about bias. If you have ever used a Nano you could scratch it with your fingernail, it's that fragile. I had a protective case and the screen still scratched and I assure you slamming a ~$400 piece of equipment around isn't one of my hobbies. Anyhow, you are missing the point, I've had my phone for a year now and it's hardly scratched if at all, my iPod(s) was/were decimated by scratches in less than a year. The mere fact that I can't put it in the same pocket with my keys and that the battery loses charge in less than a year is a problem. The Zune's screen literally can have a key ran across it and it will not scratch, the battery issue has yet to be seen (which could be a case of youth). The scratch issue could be a huge issue for the iPhone... Now to find out whether I was modded down for saying something good about Microsoft's product or something bad about Apple's.