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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: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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  2. 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.