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Why Microsoft's Zune is Still Failing
DECS writes "Last winter, RDM detailed why Microsoft's iPod Killer would fail miserably. This year, the site argues, Microsoft will fail again, but for a new set of reasons. It is not obvious that the company has figured this out itself. 'Microsoft doesn't seem to learn from its mistakes in consumer electronics very well. When it does however, it frequently gets the timing wrong. This year, Microsoft appears set to compete against the Apple of 2006. It now offers two flash models, last year's leftover 30 GB unit, and new 80 GB version. The problem is that Apple moved the goalpost dramatically. Apple's new 3G Nano is ultra thin and small, but delivers the same video resolution as Microsoft's boxy flash Zunes at the same price. It also plays games.'"
How many definitions of failure are there that one can believe that the Zune is not a failure?
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You sure got the status symbol thing right. Here are some thoughts these two products evoke:
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Exhibit A: Natalie Portman has one. Kristen Bell has one. The ex-college-buddy, now a $ucce$$ful investment banker has one.
Exhibit B: A bald, monkey-like beast sighted in public screaming like a pig, with sweat stains on the chest and under the armpits has one.
Need I say more?
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Uggh.
Shut the fuck up. It's not like you've ever done anything notable in your whole miserable life, moron.
How did he decide that consumers want a toy that can barely hold a few CDs at low quality and play movies too small to see instead of a useful music player that can hold a real, large collection of high quality sound? Yeah, Apple has the inflated prices to capture the over-paid shallow socialite market with machines that lack replaceable batteries because replacing batteries instead of buying a new machine every few months is for serfs and proles, eh.
Players with 80 gig drives are for people who like music. Apple's players and phones are for people who think it's a necessary accessory to show they have money to waste. Movies on a 1/2 inch screen, of course, there was always a big demand for that, in a player that can hold all of two whole low quality movies.
When Linux "slowly gains market penetration," it's always a success, because Linux is succeeding despite Microsoft's monopolistic practices, bundling, tying, and dirty tricks..
When Microsoft "slowly gains market penetration," it's always a failure, because Microsoft is failing despite spending billions on marketing, billions more on R&D, and despite their monopolistic practices, bundling, tying, and dirty tricks.
In different words, from a company with the kind of market share, history, and resources that Microsoft has, anything other than overwhelming success is a failure.
I'll never, ever, ever get an iPod. I'll be damned if I support the Apple monopoly.
iTunes doesn't work with anything other than an iPod... but Windows Media Player will work with ANY device (except an iPod, of course, because Apple decided to cripple it in order to maintain their monopoly). Or I can use WinAmp. Or some other player, so long as it's not from the Apple monopoly.
Microsoft: because it's all about choice. Freedom, and choice.
So what does it tell us? That people are more than willing to choose substance over style and easily dump Apple to buy players with comparable specs if they cost less. This is really bad news for Apple.
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