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May 09, 08 - 02:51 pm Comment from: LateRegistrant

"the device has sold 'just north of two million' between its debut in November 2006 and May 2008."

Canadians are buying these things?

nuff said!

May 09, 08 - 02:52 pm Comment from: ericdano

Sucks to be a Zune owner. When Ballmer gets his ass handed to him, the new person in charge should tank the Zune ASAP.

May 09, 08 - 03:01 pm Comment from: January 24, 1984

Eat a prune, squeeze a Zune.

Man, what a failure!

Gives one a glimpse of high order hubris.

May 09, 08 - 03:03 pm Comment from: Micro Me

If that Zune squirts, will the toilet become a bidet?

May 09, 08 - 03:08 pm Comment from: R5D4

I'm looking forward to Zune Tang's take...

Zune Tang, where art thou?

There's obviously a logical explanation for this, please explain.

May 09, 08 - 03:09 pm Comment from: ShelbyMac

Oh boy, I can't wait for Zune Tangs take on this one. It should be a classic.

I just love it when Microsoft gives us all this free entertainment...

I haven't bought one iota from that business since 2000, and it won't ever get anything from me in the future...

Zune Tang seems to be laying low on this one...perhaps he is crying seeing the picture of
the ToiletZune.
Hey, Maybe Micro$oft can invent a mp3 playing toilet paper roll holder. It could reach every household and bring in billions and reinvent and revolutionize the industry. Oh, Apple already did that...sorry.

The brown color would work well for a toilet paper holder.

May 09, 08 - 03:31 pm Comment from: Predrag

Zune is losing money for MS. It costs them more to make it than what they charge retail. With the original $300 (subsequently discounted prior to launch to $250) were unloaded at $80 apiece, can you imagine the losses? Obviously, for MS, that's not much, since they only "sold" 2 million (which in MSspeak means they pushed that many into the retail channels).

Pretty much most of MS entertainment hardware is losing money, as it sells for less than cost. X-Box certainly does.

Why don't we chip in with predictions when will Zune officially be pulled by MS? My guess is late 2009. PlayForSure lasted about as much; MS will probably again take forever to figure out what's a loser product.

May 09, 08 - 03:31 pm Comment from: Demon

The poo brown Zune in the toilet always makes me laugh.
just like the Zune displays in the stores.
Dust covered cheap looking crap.

At christmas time I over heard a copy in a store talking about their kid asked for an iPod and they were looking at Zunes and the dad siad, "It's by Microsoft it should work with our computer better then the iPod". The Mom's reply was look a the iPods they look so much better made and their are thousands of accessories and stuff for it. So, I'm sure it will work better on our computer then the Hitlerest looking Zune." (yes, she did say "Hitlerest"). They purchased and two iPods (the dad bought himself a touch).

You know sales aren't good when MS CEO Blow Hard never mentions his Zune sales figures, but hides them under the MS entertainment umbrella.
Wonder what his second take of the iPhone sales would be.

May 09, 08 - 03:47 pm Comment from: HMCIV

Just as Psystar should be afraid of Apple's lack of response, fear Zune Tang's silence!

May 09, 08 - 03:52 pm Comment from: Lanzarote

One first Gen Shufffle, Two first Gen Nano, 1 Nano Green, one iPod Mini, one 40 Gig iPod 4th Gen, one 30 Gig Photo, one first Gen. Video, One 8 Gig Touch and the iPhone are just in my Collection.Al of them are still working fine and used every single day in my familly.
Think most of the iPod owners got more then one. (Not everybody crazy like me)

May 09, 08 - 03:58 pm Comment from: walk away Bill just walk away

@ ericdano,
"When Ballmer gets his ass handed to him"

Now, no one really wants that to happen. Ballmer is Apples best friend, I look forward to years and years of sweat and chair throwing and monkey dancing and hilarious quotes " Five hundred dollars!!! and no subsidy... ". Fricken priceless just leave him be

May 09, 08 - 04:05 pm Comment from: Jubei

This report is bogus. MS entertaiment division was immensely profitable because of the Zune products. That number of 2 million is just wrong. MS should just come out and tell everyone exactly how many were sold of their iPod Killer. The product that Enderele and his cohorts were telling iPod users that its game over for them.

They sold at least 5 more last week nationwide. Thats 5 extra Zunes out in the wild. Their selling like hotcakes I tell ya...

"According to ... Jason Reindorp, Zune’s director of product marketing, the device has sold 'just north of two million' between its debut in November 2006 and May 2008."

So, if by "sold", Reindorp doesn't mean "shipped", then in almost two years, Microsoft has sold around two million Zunes.
Of those 2 million, 1.9 million were purchased by blind Grandmothers for their unsuspecting grandchildren, all of whom politely, and through forced smiles, thanked Granny.
As soon as Gramma left the house, the grandkids immediately threw the piece of brown plastic in the trash .
The kids then went straight out, got a paper route, saved for a month, and bought a REAL iPod.

Speaking of ZuneTang ... where is he??

May 09, 08 - 04:25 pm Comment from: MCCFR

To be fair, according to my records, in the first seven quarters when iPod sales were reported as a line item Apple sold only 2.6 million units.

However, in those same interests, Apple was pretty much defining a new market whereas Microsoft were selling into a mature marketplace.

I'm just glad I don't have to go into Dances With Monkey's office every three months and tell him that they've managed to sell a massive 250,000 Zunes in the last 90 days and Apple have just announced another 10 million iPod sales: on balance, I'd rather be one of Saddam Hussein's body doubles - it would be less dangerous.

May 09, 08 - 04:28 pm Comment from: Jubei

I think ZT is running around the country counting up exactly how many Zunes were sold. That way he can come back with a solid number of a dozen and post it here to announce his findings. LOL

At this point a Saddam Hussein body double = a Vegas lounge act.

May 09, 08 - 04:40 pm Comment from: Hm...

The only divisions of Microsoft to make a profit are the monopoly supported Windows, Server, and Office pieces. *Everything* else has been a loss. But when you have that much cash on hand, you can put the others out of business; i.e.; MS is trying to "Netscape" the entertainment/home device market.

And the Zune shows just how well it's working this time...

Oh where oh where has my Zune Tang gone? Oh where oh where has he gone?

I actually like the Zune - it's, it's ... crack-a-LACKING.



Have a good weekend.

remember that great ad campaign?

welcome to the social


goodbye

May 09, 08 - 04:52 pm Comment from: ericdano

I think Zune Tang is trying to get support for his Dell Ditty or something....

I like Microsoft's new Zune commercials.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIk4qTKmKzE

I think they have a good chance with Zune 2.0 .

May 09, 08 - 05:16 pm Comment from: ElderNorm

Per above, :Zune is losing money for MS. It costs them more to make it than what they charge retail. With the original $300 (subsequently discounted prior to launch to $250) were unloaded at $80 apiece, can you imagine the losses? Obviously, for MS, that's not much, since they only "sold" 2 million (which in MSspeak means they pushed that many into the retail channels)."

I would have to say that it was the stores that lost the money for having to discount Zunes. Unless the items were taken on consignment, the store owns them.

I have to wonder if Walmart gets stuck with huge numbers of Zunes, will they keep stocking new models????? Or will they just tell Micorsoft to ....... bugger off!! ??????

en

May 09, 08 - 05:30 pm Comment from: Spark

I think MS is still trying to unload their FIRST production batch of Zunes. When the inventory finally leaves the warehouse (at current rate that can still be a few years) then MS will quietly pull the plug on Zune.

May 09, 08 - 05:42 pm Comment from: shen

"To be fair, according to my records, in the first seven quarters when iPod sales were reported as a line item Apple sold only 2.6 million units.

However, in those same interests, Apple was pretty much defining a new market whereas Microsoft were selling into a mature marketplace."

and how many of those quarters was it Mac only? yeah the more you think about it, the more pathetic the Zune looks.....

May 09, 08 - 05:50 pm Comment from: Demon

MS like all the electronic manufactures provides SPIFs and retailer rebates to discount and move old inventories, this keeps the retailer from losing money and encourages retailer to move old product.

Actually, given that stores gave the Zune place of prominence, one has to safely assume that MS paid for the promotion. I doubt the retailers took too much of a beating.

May 09, 08 - 07:49 pm Comment from: TheConfuzed1

I have never seen a Zune outside of a store, or an advertisement.

Whenever I have seen a Zune, or a Zune accessory, it was a single item (or two items), sitting in the middle of an entire isle of iPods and iPod accessories.

I've asked around here at work, and no else else has ever seen a Zune either.

For the record, I work at a car dealership. I see iPods and iPhones every day in the service department, and in the vehicles I appraise.

Hell, I've even seen people here with Creative Zens, but not one Zune. lol

There is nothing wrong with Microsoft's Zune. That a bit of fiber couldn't fix.

Zune? Do they still make those?

May 09, 08 - 11:55 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ Zune Tang™

HAMMER.

May 10, 08 - 12:00 am Comment from: ChrissyOne

A reminder...

Comment from: ChrissyOne Jan 03, 07 - 05:06 pm

Since we're in a betting mood today, I have another proposal:

If the Zune is ever the #1 player by market share, I will smash my black Nano to tiny bits with my Estwing framing hammer. And I will film it and put it on my MySpace for all to see. It has my name engraved on the back, so you'll know it's really mine.

Conversely, if the Zune project is EOL'd, Zune Tang will smash his (her?) Zune with a blunt instrument of their own choosing.

Deal?

-c

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@ChrissyOne:

It's a deal. I will post a video of myself smashing my EOL'd Zune on my Windows LIve Spaces account accessible via Microsoft's nifty MSN service. Zune EOL'd. Now that is funny. Redmond pulling the plug on Zune is a hilarious concept as it so outside the realm of possibility that Microsoft would abandon a product as awesome as Zune which they obviously put their heart and soul into. Great product.

The Zune sucks, but their website is great!

May 10, 08 - 01:00 am Comment from: TowerTone

"The reader who attended the event observed “curiously, the Microsoft booth did not appear to be swamped with customers during the weekend, but there did seem to be a distinct burst of activity on eBay selling monogrammed red Zunes.”

Priceless.

May 10, 08 - 01:03 am Comment from: TowerTone

Oh, and C1,is your face milled or smooth?

Wow... No Zune Tang yet, I am amazed...

its now official - the zine is dead.

Another one of Microsofts failures to join their catalogue of commercial dissastsrs.

Where will it all end I wonder...

May 10, 08 - 04:34 pm Comment from: ericdano

I think Zune Tang was putting service pack 3 on his XP machine, and is stuck in a rebooting cycle....

Easter Egg!

Drag the nifty MDN image 'Microsoft Zune makes a big splash' to your desktop and check out the name of the picture file.

BWAHAHAHAHA!