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" Microsoft sees room in music player market for ‘Zune’ to challenge Apple’s dominant iPod"


I see room for growth in the front of my Levi's

But that doesn't meant it's gonna happen.

Oops, bad spelling.

"We want it to be the best music experience you can have"

yet they'll restrict it to Windows and WiMP. The statement rings false right from the start.

Yeah, there's room for Microsoft in the iPod Universe...
There are PLENTY of seats in the BACK of the bus.

Here in Oz the latest iPod ad campaign has ramped up, obviously to clear out inventory and then dovetail into next week's announcements. Zune will be stillborn.

"MacDailyNews Take: Zune: Way too little, way too late."

ahh! I hear a Johnny Mathis/Deniece Williams song coming on...

"Guess it's over, call it a day..."

Clarification: I mean to say that requiring Windows and WiMP, they're forcing users to use substandard products; obviously I don't care two dimes that they won't bother with Mac or Linux platforms.

"Zune: Way too little, way too late."

It is never too late as no company can hold onto a market forever. Apple is being wise to not rest and continue to innovate.

Too little? Oh yeah, someone must really come up with something big to the point that Steve Jobs would say, "damn, I wish I had thought of that." MS is under the false impression you can simply say, we have wireless so start a community.

No but really, I also think there's room in the music player market for iPod challengers - its just not going to be Zune. Sorry MS.

Didn't M$ used to say that the mp3 player market would shrink as cell phones took on more functionality? I wish they're make up their minds.

Too funny.
Reuters reports, "Microsoft plans to heavily promote the wireless capabilities on its new digital music player, Zune, in order to position the device as an alternative to the iPod, which currently lacks wireless functionality, Lee said.

Once again, APPLE will push MS into the Obselesence Galaxy (right next to our own MILKY WAY!) before they even get started.

ipod- isn't 75% too low?

magic word- "done".
As in MS, your DONE.

MDN's take should have been: "HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA . . . [gasping for breath] . . . HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA . . .

somehow ROTFLMAO just doesn't make the coffee spewing through my nose laughter that the title generated.

brought to you by "others" as in there may be others, but certainly not Zune.

Microsoft Fails4Sure

enough said.

Whoops.
Obsolescence.

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GET TO WORK PEOPLE!!!

Creative Genius, you forgot poon and Camaroon.

I have several friends who got iPod alternatives. Every one of them is sad and hoping their player breaks soon so they can justify a real iPod purchase.

It's such a waste of time for MS to pursue this. They should be focusing on getting Vista right instead of dicking around with an ugly iPod wannabe.

Why mommie is a democrat. Hahahahahaha. No daddie in sight.

The headline should read:
"Microsoft Still Delusional About Zune"

I see Microsoft continuing to dominate in the virus, trojan and spyware markets. That's all.

Pissing their resources away on Zune should have shareholders demanding to know what the F*** is going on in Redmond.

I found my Zune was not immune to Trojoons in a Cameroonian saloon.

"The digital music player market will eventually mushroom to hundreds of millions of units a year—up from a current rate of 30 to 40 million units per year"


Great news for AAPL

Once my Zune sang,
I got no poontang.

I wonder if the wireless security will be as bad as their operating systems? What's thew betting that there are more security patches downloaded from their site than songs?

I wonder if they will make a big song and dance about the 1 billionth security patch download?

Someone help me out on this... didn't we see a post that wireless capability was already being taken out of the Zune?

So when will the first Zune virus be released?

Apparently, it won't be here Zune enough to stem the iPod tide.

Yes, the ipod tide.
Which can be experienced during ANY zunar eclipse.

Did anybody notice how the article finished ?

After explaining all about Microsoft's hopes for Zune, the last sentence was "Microsoft shares fell 16 cents to $25.68 in late-afternoon Nasdaq trade."

Well they certainly impressed the markets then.

Wouldn't it be hilarious if a new iPod introduced on 9/12 had wireless capability? Not that I think such a feature is necessary, but it would take all the wind out of Microsoft's sails. What could they possibly say to sell the Zune then?

MS seems to be betting the farm on this silly "shared experience" thing. It's a non-issue. People just want to put on their headphones and listen to music. They want to listen to what THEY want to listen to. Not what someone else wants them to listen to.

And I'm also a little tired of people comparing some future yet-to-be-released Zune poc with the current on-the-market iPod offerings, as if Apple has just ceased development on the iPod and will no longer be offering any innovations of its own. If you really want to talk about a war of innovations, then I already know who is going to win that war, and it won't be MS. And I really don't think a Dell-ification of the mp3 market is going to work. The types of people that by these music/video players are by and large not the type that care about the "cheap bastard" argument. (The "cheap bastard" argument being of course, "Well, the Zune devices ARE cheaper.")

I was thinking the very same thing.
Besides, Zune- "...slated for release later this year..."

Who knows what else Apple can pull off between now and then (ipod updates, that is).

"Microsoft plans to heavily promote the wireless capabilities on its new digital music player, Zune, in order to position the device as an alternative to the iPod, which currently lacks wireless functionality"

Wait until next Tuesday. Then MS might have to modify the end of that statement.

"We want it to be the best music experience you can have"

Even if MS truly wants that, they have shown time and again they are utterly incapable of actually delivering it.

Why do I need wireless again?

I'm sure it'll be hamfisted in its implementation, as always from Microsoft.

If Apple does it too at least it'll be done right.

That Zune brick is so fat it can't see it's own dick when it pees.

Fatty.

For those old enough to remember when Walkmen were new and all the rage, do you recall that in the early days, they had two headphone sockets so that you could share your music with a friend ?

How many later models felt it was worth bothering to add a second socket ?

I'm not so sure that sharing is a particularly popular feature with users.

"...a current rate of 30 to 40 million units per year," said the genius Mafiasoft VP.

Letsee, Apple sold 37 million iPods over the last 12 months. I thought their market share was around 50% worldwide, but it seems it's really between 93 and 124%?!

The only thing Microsoft will see will be another interminable year of disappointment, frustration, and bewilderment.

"eventually mushroom" - only someone from microsoft would put those two words together.