Sales of the Microsoft Zune sank from second place to fifth place in one week, according to the market research firm NPD Group. Zune sales dropped to 2.1 percent of the market in the week ended Nov. 25.
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The New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin visited CNN’s “Amercian Morning” show earlier today to visit with Miles O’Brien and Soledad O’Brien to discuss to Microsoft Zune. What ensued was a comedy of sorts - unless you’re Microsoft, then it’s a tragedy….
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After a relatively painless installation we set to work on the Zune software. We weren’t exactly sure what Microsoft meant when they said that Zune Marketplace would import music automatically from iTunes, but we were guessing that meant they’d grab only the non-DRMed music, like MP3s you downloaded off the net. Well, we were right.
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We hoped installing the Zune software and getting our player running would be as seamless and painless as getting iTunes and an iPod running on your machine, since that is, after all, what it’s up against. Unfortunately, the reality of our experience with the first version of the Zune software this afternoon is that is SUCKS!
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Plenty of people have credit cards and they understand the concept of purchasing items with them. So, how, you ask, could Microsoft screw this up? No, first you might ask, what is there to screw up? I mean, the system already works. All you need your customer to do is show up with a credit card? Right? Wrong!
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By coincidence i got my hands early on an Microsoft Zune, bought as a regular customer at BestBuy in Union City Landing shopping centre.
They dont seem to care that the release day is next tuesday.
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The Beatles have finally allowed their music to be sold online — they’ll have 33 albums in the Zune Marketplace when it launches tomorrow. About time!
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Article claims that the installation screen for Zune software is a girl having an orgasm… pictures are there, see what you think.
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Microsoft Corp. plans to add a video-sharing feature to its Zune player and will eventually sell a model that combines the device with a phone, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said.
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I have no idea who is marketing this device within the company, but from what I can tell, this is going to become a major turkey in the product mix. As far as I can tell, Microsoft should simply turn over all its marketing to the Xbox 360 folks
—at least some of the people in that group have marketing skills
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