You’ve got to give Microsoft credit. Having failed at making the Zune an “iPod killer,” they’ve given up and are trying to make it an “iPod touch killer.” Why go after big brother when little brother has kicked your butt for two years? Beats me; you’d have to ask Microsoft. All I can do is look at the Zune HD and see what it’s about…
Posts Tagged ‘Zune’
TAB – Microsoft: We Couldn’t Kill the iPod, Maybe We Can Kill the iPod touch
In General on Monday, 1 June 2009 at 16:22Pre-Macworld Tech Headlines Review.
In General on Saturday, 12 January 2008 at 0:20
Let’s face it, next week we’ll all be discussing Macworld news, so I thought I’d review some tech headlines from the last few days and get them out of my system before the real fun begins next week…
Thurrott Thinks the Old Brown Zune 30 is Suddenly Great.
In Uncategorized on Saturday, 24 November 2007 at 11:16
Paul Thurrott believes shoppers think the year-old Zune 30 (you know, the huge, brown, Boat Anchor one) is suddenly a great MP3 player.
Paul uses an article by Macworld as an excuse to drool all over the “success” of the closeout brown Boat Anchor 30 (BA30) Zune being #1 on Amazon’s MP3 player list (it’s given away for $172). The black BA30 is also cheap, but even with a better color the extra $25 is too much, so it’s at #10 — behind five iPods.
Zune Site Claims Zune Beats iPod Seven Ways.
In Uncategorized on Wednesday, 14 November 2007 at 21:47
Do the new 2G Zunes have what it takes to compete with the latest iPods?
Well, in an article titled “7 Ways Zune Beats iPod?” Team Zune Luv certainly thinks so. In fact, the “team” claims the Zune is
“…better for the consumer in a number of way [sic] that, at this point, the iPod simply can’t touch”
I disagree, so let’s take a look at their list and see what we can make of it:
So Many Tech Headlines, So Little Time.
In Uncategorized on Saturday, 6 October 2007 at 12:19Some Thoughts On The Zune 2 Preview.
In Uncategorized on Thursday, 4 October 2007 at 17:07
Paul Turrott has been laying low lately. He says it’s because he’s been working hard on his Microsoft Propaganda SuperSite blog, but I tend to think he was also ramping up for some serious Zune humping. He did not disappoint.
New Zunes And A Certain Rodent We All Know.
In Uncategorized on Wednesday, 3 October 2007 at 17:01
So the new Zunes are here. Stories are just rolling in since the embargo only recently lifted for the major outlets a little while ago (though smaller outlets trickled the word out, such as the Gizmodo picture above).
Zune Sales, Paul Thurrott, and THUD
In Uncategorized on Tuesday, 29 May 2007 at 10:37
So Paul Thurrott retracts his previous post about Microsoft selling one million Zunes. But he does so in a manner that makes it appear to be no big deal.
Paul specifically said in his original post that it was “not too shabby”. Further, it was a big enough deal for him to post it in the first place (and on a holiday, no less). Now that he has to retract it, well, hey, it’s only a month away (if it happens), so it’s apparently still some sort of accomplishment. Um, no.
Microsoft almost sells 1M Zunes. Big whoop.
In Uncategorized on Tuesday, 29 May 2007 at 9:45
Microsoft’s Zune player was released on 11/14 last year, and a dud pretty much right out of the box. Sales dropped so quickly after the first week that three weeks later Microsoft had to put on a brave face and say that sales were meeting expectations (really? they expected it to sell so badly?) and would reach one million by the end of June, 2007:
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