Re: [News] Microsoft Zune, Like Live, is Already Dead?
__/ [ Jerry McBride ] on Friday 29 September 2006 23:38 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Microsoft Zune's As Good As Dead On Arrival
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>> | I responded last week to a comment left on our blog by Mike Evangelist
>> | hypothesizing that Microsoft could do some serious damage to Apple's
>> | iPod domination by launching its Zune music player at $99. Well, so much
>> | for that theory. Today, Microsoft announced that the Zune will retail
>> | for $249.99, $0.99 more than Apple's fifth generation iPod video.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | At least Microsoft is consistent: users will have to wait for Zune 2.0
>> | before we find out whether Microsoft will actually challenge Apple for
>> | digital music player leadership. But Zune 1.0 appears to be dead on
>> | arrival.
>> `----
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>> http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/060928/17697_id.html?.v=1
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> I might have bought one for $99.00(us), just to see what the hardware
> looked like and if the harddrive could be used as iPod replacements. At
> $249.99... they can go fsck themselves...
Do you mean scandisk.exe themsleves? *grin*
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