Zune —
From the refreshed shuffle, through the new video-playing iPod nano and iPod touch (not forgetting the newly price iPhone) through to the wireless iTunes store (buy your music on impulse, right on your iPod touch/iPhone, no computer required), Apple has just raised the bar for Microsoft’s Zune platform. Here are the new [...]
Microsoft said it would be happy if it sold a million Zunes in a year six months. Depending on how you count “sales”, they might have just achieved their target. At the time this objective was set, the Zune team was staunch in its own defence. This is a new product [...]
Microsoft has just claimed that one million Zunes have now been sold. Is this true? After all, as Benjamin Disraeli once said - there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics; so what does this claim actually mean?
I last wrote about Zune sales towards the end of March. [...]
I’m sure you know what digital rights management (aka DRM) is all about in the context of music and video. DRM is the name given to technologies that try to limit the ways in which consumers can enjoy music and movies. However, there’s a fundamental problem with DRM - it doesn’t work. [...]
Well, as far as it’s possible to tell, Zune sales have settled down to a level of less than 50,000 units per month.  I think “failure” is the only word to describe this level of performance.  Even by Microsoft’s own rather narrow definition of success - selling a million units by June 2007 - Zune [...]
Looks like the Zune team really set themselves some stretch objectives for the sales performance of their new MP3 player. Apparently, the objective was:
To become the second biggest seller of 30GB hard drive-based players
Talk about good things happening when you narrow the category! Let’s see, in that particular market segment, aside from the [...]
Now that Zune has been on the market for a couple of weeks, it seems a good time to review where we stand in terms of the sales trends for the new Microsoft music player. Microsoft’s view, apparently, is that Zune sales are, “Exactly where they hoped they’d be.” But where [...]
Looking around the Internet, it seems that Zune is really under fire. Very few people seem to like it. I can’t say I’m surprised. So, with the Zune taking flack from all sides, how are the Zune team and Zune fans reacting?
Looks like they might be feeling the heat, because it appears [...]
A Microsoft employee, Marc Dencker, has joined in the conversation about Zune on my blog. Marc says,
Maybe it is because you can get it cheaper at Dell or Costco (and probably others)
eitherway read this and you might get it.
And then, points to an article in Business Week.
First, thanks for posting Marc; it’s good to [...]
At the end of October, I posted my Top 5 Reasons Why Zune would fail. Now, Microsoft’s new music player has launched. So, how is it selling in the market? Has the Zune been a huge success? Or was my prediction that Zune would fail correct?
Looking at the top 100 [...]