Microsoft's problem is that they came too late to the game, and then targeted the wrong market. If they wanted to produce a high-end competitor to the iPOD, they needed to do it two years ago. The iPOD is now THE high-end MP3 player because it had the market to itself. All the people who would have bought the Zune two years ago (Apple haters like me) have already given in to the iPOD. I resisted until May.
I'm in the opposite situation...
I'm a science/technology teacher at middle school that has 44 teachers. Only seven are male. Fortunately, they accepted me pretty quickly (I have sisters, so it wasn't that hard to be "one of the girls"), and I've gotten to like being the only male around most of the time. Once I got used to it, it's a pretty good situation actually. Lots of dating advice from lots of big sisters...
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Microsoft's problem is that they came too late to the game, and then targeted the wrong market. If they wanted to produce a high-end competitor to the iPOD, they needed to do it two years ago. The iPOD is now THE high-end MP3 player because it had the market to itself. All the people who would have bought the Zune two years ago (Apple haters like me) have already given in to the iPOD. I resisted until May.
I'm in the opposite situation... I'm a science/technology teacher at middle school that has 44 teachers. Only seven are male. Fortunately, they accepted me pretty quickly (I have sisters, so it wasn't that hard to be "one of the girls"), and I've gotten to like being the only male around most of the time. Once I got used to it, it's a pretty good situation actually. Lots of dating advice from lots of big sisters...