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Re: [News] [Rival] Zune Too is Dying, Apparently

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____/ Sinister Midget on Monday 04 Jan 2010 19:37 : \____

> On 2010-01-04, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
>>
>> ____/ Sinister Midget III on Monday 04 Jan 2010 09:56 : \____
>>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2010-01-04, Marti van Lin <ml2mst@xxxxxxxxx> claimed:
>>> 
>>>> Roy Schestowitz schreef:
> 
>>>> I don't know a single soul who owns a Zune or wants one.
>>> 
>>> I know a guy who has/had one. He loved it until he got tired of trying
>>> to use it for about a week.
>>
>> I never see it in shops. IIRC, they hardly make these available in the
>> UK (HD for example).
> 
> They had people dumb enough to buy them here for awhile. There's a
> guaranteed market of morons that think anything with the M$ logo or
> name will be fantastic. This despite a long history of fourth-rate
> sewage.
> 
> Most likely Microspurts knew they'd lose even more on trying to ship
> the crap outside the US on the freight than they could get back via
> sales.

They hardly ship in Europe because it's losing so much money in America and they
are not prepared to bleed in another continent (which dislikes Microsoft for its
crimes even more).

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