The end of Zune? It's not just the music anymore

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Zune had nothing compelling.

I was at WallyWorld, and while cheaper than any iStuff, it was still 30-40% more expensive than creative same size same screen players. The social has an incredibly bad implementation of a good concept. If, at launch, you could purchase over the web, instant sync to/from your computer over WiFi, it might have had a chance.

Well that and MS really really really needs (in general) to fire every marketing company they currently use and hire a complete fresh new crop. Even knowing what a Zune was, and actively looking for the commercials, they really didn't make any sense.

I do agree thought, I have a dedicated MP3 player, with incredible sound capabilities (Virtual3D being one of them, saved profiles of audio settings for headphone, car, speaker, etc) so my new Blackberry, while capable (and with MicroSD, pretty much unlimited capacity) as a music player, would be sufficient if I didn't have the dedicated player. In general, I can see the market slowly erode, however, there will, for the moderate term, still be a need/desire for standalone MP3 players.

Simply put, I agree, Zune, iPods, other MP3 players (they really are commodity items now) are not where new revenue is at.

TripleII

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