“Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday that it is ‘not unreasonable’ for the company to introduce a mobile phone combined with features of its Zune digital music player to compete with Apple Inc.’s iPhone,” Daisuke Wakabayashi reports for Reuters.
“The Zune phone, a topic of speculation for months since Microsoft introduced its first digital music player last year, could be driven by consumer demand for one multimedia device to make phone calls, play music and take pictures,” Wakabayashi reports.
MacDailyNews Take: We’ve said it before, so we’ll say it again: Microsoft’s Zune is the WNBA of the digital media device world.*
Wakabayashi continues, “‘It wouldn’t be unreasonable to think at some point there might some integrated thing,’ Mindy Mount, chief financial officer of Microsoft’s entertainment and devices division, told investors at Citigroup’s global technology conference.”
MacDailyNews Take: Not unreasonable? Hell, we can guarantee that if they do it, it will be some “thing” – integrated in assbackwards fashion, as usual. That’s a foregone conclusion based upon decades of crap products from Microsoft. Forget some integrated phone thing, the Zune itself is “unreasonable.” It was years too late, offered way too little, and it was fecal brown. It’s a re-badged joke that any other company would have already killed if they were even stupid enough proceed with the launch in the first place.
Wakabayashi continues, “Microsoft has sent mixed signals about the Zune phone. At the time it introduced the Zune last year, the company said a Zune phone was definitely part of its future plans. Earlier this year, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said at a CEO forum that the Zune phone is not a concept that Microsoft would ever pursue.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Bottom line: Microsoft has no idea what they’re doing. Who’s surprised?
*Boring mediocrity that real people couldn’t care less about propped up by vastly larger organizations with agendas unrelated to the product itself. Ginned-up “interest” cannot sustain failure for long.
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