Re: Microsoft hits the 20,000th song download threshold w Zune 2 - no longer the company for business dorks - WHAT?

In article <C37597C0.9BA35%CSMA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Snit <CSMA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"gimme_this_gimme_that@xxxxxxxxx" <gimme_this_gimme_that@xxxxxxxxx> stated
in post 5f795c98-17e6-4f77-a15b-378b6cbc4085@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on
11/30/07 10:06 AM:

I haven't seen a Zune in the wild in nearly a year. Has anyone?

. . .

Not only have I not seen a Zune anywhere other than a store *at all* I have
yet to find a student in my intro classes who has *heard* of them.

By this time after the opening of the Apple itunes store they
were well beyond 1 million tunes sold.

So the big question is:

How much money does Microsoft have to lose on a project before
they give up?

Anyway, what's with all the WinBoys getting excited about a one day #1
ranking on Amazon electronics?

BIG YAWN. I think we've cleared up that anomaly. It was done via
the old Microsoft trick of MARKET DUMPING a product that won't
sell through the use of below manufacturing cost FIRE SALE
PRICING:

WAS: $249
IS NOW: $119
AKA: Market dumping

-Side question 1: Did this market dumping hurt iPod sales?
-Answer: No way.

-Side question 2: Will getting a price cut Zune I make kids happy
and smiley on Christmas day?
-Answer: Hohoho! Santa screwed you. It doesn't even look like
coal. It looks like a turd. Merry Christmas.

End of story.

:-P

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