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12/06/2006, 5:35pm, EST
Wednesday, December 6th
Microsoft: 1m Zune sales by mid-2007
Microsoft today said it expects to sell 1 million Zune players through the first half of 2007, and claims that such a figure would be a good start for the company. "We think that's actually pretty awesome," said Bryan Lee, corporate vice president for Microsoft's entertainment group. Microsoft unveiled the Zune in mid-November amidst clouds of speculation and doubt from industry watchers, according to the Associated Press. The 30GB Zune player -- which is priced equally to Apple's 30GB video iPod -- offers several features the iPod does not, such as wireless Zune-to-Zune music transfers which expire after three days. Despite this, however, 80 percent of consumers still pointed to Apple's iPod as their first choice for an MP3 player in a recent poll. The Redmond-based company's share in the digital audio player market decreased as reported yesterday after the company's initial entry into the business.
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The bigger question is, will these customers become satisfied repeat customers?
LOLLLLL Microshit! Give up it morons.
Such a great question. I'm sure there is a very high customer return rate for iPods. Thats all Apple user experience.
I can say-for sure-the zunes on say at the electronics outlets near me are not selling many of these players. I think Circuit City is getting more profit from te discounted 1G shuffle protectors than it is from the zune or two they sold. In fact, unless they are hauling inventory from somewhere in the back, they didn't move a single item from the locked display case.
zune=dead as disco