Comments on: Zune 2: Mediocrity grows on trees

By: Margaret Shook

Margaret Shook — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:43:42 +0000

Amazing stuff, just Stumbled it

By: Don McDougall

Don McDougall — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 04:11:36 +0000

This articls in now 4 months old and the ZUNE out sold the IPODS almost 2-1 this christmas. The screen on the new Zune is 2X that of the IPOD, and the sound is better on the Zune also.

In the only market that means a darn the Zune won out. BIG TIME.

By the way doesn’t Microsoft own 50% of Apple?

By: mfearing

mfearing — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:46:39 +0000

Microsoft has so much money they just need t find ways to waste it. And pinpointing markets they think they need and unleashing the MBA’s is what they do. They will fail into some foothold somewhere. But eventually they will become what IBM was in about 1990. They will become not a leader (look in the online ad space) but a has-been and a me-too. They are too big to matter, as odd as that sounds.

By: daviddennis

daviddennis — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:47:51 +0000

I saw someone who owned a Zune. I asked her why she bought it, and she told me she didn’t want to be like all the other kids with iPods.

I showed her my iPhone and she was dumbstruck by it – I wouldn’t be surprised if her next player is an iPod Touch.

By: BeastMaster

BeastMaster — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:16:31 +0000

Dmitri I happen to own a zune and I love it. Before I bought it I checked out several different players including the ipod and as far as I was concerned using the same set of headphones everyone else’s had better sound quality than the ipod. Apple keeps adding on to their ipods to bad they don’t try to improve sound quality.

By: Consumer markets: Time for Microsoft to exit? « counternotions

Consumer markets: Time for Microsoft to exit? « counternotions — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:41:25 +0000

[...] in the vein of iPhone and iPod, can Microsoft outdo its close competitors Apple and Google? In Zune 2: Mediocrity grows on trees I contrasted the introduction of Zune 2 and to iPod touch. Clearly Microsoft hasn’t yet [...]

By: Kontra

Kontra — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:02:32 +0000

Dmitri, what’s wrong with Zune is that it’s not an iPod. As an “iPod-killer”, it doesn’t measure up. And in this market, if you can’t unseat the iPod, you’re left with the crumbs.

By: Dmitri

Dmitri — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:35:09 +0000

As someone who uses neither Zune nor iPod, I have to ask: what’s wrong with Zune?

By: CrazyHearse

CrazyHearse — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:33:10 +0000

Kontra, the 1.2 million sales is to the retail channel, not to end customers apparently. I reckon the customer figure will be a tad smaller.

By: Kontra

Kontra — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:57:39 +0000

Michael, I’m still dumbfounded as to how (if such numbers can be trusted) 1.2 million people actually bought a Zune 1 so far. Why would a person do that?