One Million Zunes Sold?!
Posted in News by Dan at 12:31 pm
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According to Robbie Bach, Microsoft’s president of the Entertainment and Devices Division, Zune has already met the goal of 1.000.000 players sold, set at launch for the end of June. He also confirms that new Zune things will come in this fall, talks (not) about the Zune Phone, the new Watermelon Red Zune, the Zune Marketplace and of course Xbox 360.
This weekend I made a conscious decision to give my iPod a week off and go Zune only. Come on, the thought of access to unlimited subscription music, and FM radio (not a fan of the brown, but whatever). So, I kicked my second laptop into BootCamp, made the Vista plunge and installed the Zune software.
Long story short; the software installation process was quite possibly the worst experience ever, but that was quickly eclipsed by the HORRIFIC ass backwards annoying Zune software/syncing experience. After HOURS of coaxing I think I have the damn thing working. I’ll report back at the end of the week on how the rest of the experience was, but I am left puzzled HOW Microsoft sold a million of these to suckers customers?
Not to be rude, but a certain Dan did buy one. *snicker snicker*
A certain Dan got it as a review unit.
Now, after the iPod bin I wonder how many of their own Zunes they bought…
My G/F has one and I like it once EVERYTHING is all said and done. (ya know, the horrible installation and that crappy zune software)
Review unit eh? Just messing around with ya.
“SHIPPED” is not the same as sold except for a guy who hanging onto his job – though after the holidays when MS is third in the console business, he’ll be Zune gone.
MS has a habit of having/edict of counting SHIPPED as the same as SOLD (Xbox & “sales” numbers are really “shipped” numbers)
This story actually misquoted the Mr. Bach. He actually said, “When we finish our fiscal year in June we’ll have sold a little over a million Zunes, so we feel very good about that.” So they haven’t already done it…quite a major error in the story. You can see the details or the error here:
http://blogs.business2.com/apple/2007/05/microsofts_zune.html
Well, to tell the truth, it seems to be a wonderful piece of technology, especially for the price. I mean, it’s much more capable than an iPod at nearly the same price. I’m for one quite excited for the prospect of owning a Zune after Linux has finally been ported onto it.