“While Apple’s Macintosh line is still building on its recent market-share gains, it was sales of the iPod music and video players that continued to highlight Apple’s holiday-weekend business and grab the attention of analysts and shoppers,” Rex Crum reports for MarketWatch.
“A look at Amazon’s list of best-selling products showed that Apple’s 2-gigabyte silver iPod Nano was the top-selling electronics device, followed by the black 30-gigabyte video iPod and the newly released 1-gigabyte iPod Shuffle in the third spot. Apple iPods claimed five of the top 10 spots on the Amazon list, and 10 of the top 25,” Crum reports. “By comparison, Microsoft’s new and highly touted Zune media player came in only at No. 75 on Amazon’s list of 100 best-selling electronics, trailing items such as Apple’s $29.99 iPod USB power adapter (No. 65).”
“‘The 30GB video iPods are selling well (and appear to be immune to the Zune),’ wrote Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore in a research note,” Crum reports. “Whitmore said that retail checks suggest Apple has stocked sufficient supplies of iPods and Macs at its own stores and at most distributors. In addition to the video iPod, the newest iPod Shuffle, released just on Nov. 3, is turning out to be a popular holiday gift, he added, and the 4GB versions of the iPod Nano are popular, ‘as they come in a number of colors.'”
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can i get a booster shot so that i am also immune to Zune?
This made me laugh out loud:
“By comparison, Microsoft’s new and highly touted Zune media player came in only at No. 75 on Amazon’s list of 100 best-selling electronics, trailing items such as Apple’s $29.99 iPod USB power adapter (No. 65).”
WHERE IS SOON TANK WHEN WE NEED MORE JOKES?
Well la-tee-da. Amazon shoppers aren’t the ones Microsoft is targeting with Zune. Nobody shops at Amazon. The “Social” are independent, hip, energetic youngsters you see in Microsoft’s brilliant marketing who are snapping up Zunes at Wal-Marts. These kids along with Microsoft are leading a revolution in portable entertainment and it’s only the beginning.
I would hate to be Apple right now without a points system in place and without the super dynamic WiFi capabilities the Zune has. Nice try, Apple, but face the facts. No one is immune to Microsoft’s infectious brand of innovation, creativity and sense for what is best for the customer. Upward and onward, Microsoft!
Welcome to the Social.
i can’t believe they wasted a zune in that pic, i could have wiped my hairy brown ass with it first
Zune Tang is my favorite poster. I can always count on him/her for a smile.
The white and brown zunes didn’t even make the top 100 at Amazon. The black one dropped 1 to #76. It’s really pathetic.
Welcome to the social, Zune!
All it took was a squirt of antibiotic.
Zune Tang is awesome! Great troll parody! Great laughs! Watch out ZT, M$ might be looking to give you a job!
“trailing items such as Apple’s $29.99 iPod USB power adapter (No. 65).”
that is the funniest thing I have read all day…hands down
hehe
Zune Tang, well put
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Always nice with a good laugh!
Zune Tang,
You have to make yourself sound more
shrill to be convincing. Your dialogue,
however, is quite entertaining.
Zune Tang, ( aka Steve Balmer )
Ease up a bit. We don’t want to get caught faking any more Zune enthusiasm.
PS. Keep buying all the Zune’s you can on Amazon with the offshore Visa card i gave you.
Gill B.
If Microsoft wants to offer me a job, I’ll take it. It’s got to be living on a better class of the dole.
Welcome to the Socialism.
Pity. Always an unpleasant emotion on the sending, and receiving end.
‘Was with a friend over the holidays, and I drew out my MacBook, flipped it open, and got wi-fi in about five seconds. He brought out his “bathroom scale” Dell, and waited for it to boot up, and then hunt for a signal.
Painful, awkward silence as it groaned to life. You don’t want want to say anything, but you just have to. Probably the same watching a Zunist waiting for a song download. You watch, knowing he’s as likely to be getting infected with something “social” as getting some new tune.
At least MS chose a different path. The differentiation towards wireless was their obvious option, but I can’t stop thinking it’ll be like the Dell/MacBook comparison if Apple ever decides that should be done.
Zune Tang is not funny yet all you Mac Heads just lap it up. It cracks me up as you sound like those pretentious artsy-fartsies who stand in front of an impressionist painting and discuss the emotions a painting that looks like splattered rat guts evokes in you. Goes to show that you are so easily fooled. I bet you all have XP on your Macs….welcome to the social disease heheheh
Amazon.com top 100 bestsellers electronic : 1. Ipod Nano, 2 iPod 5G , 3 iPod Shuffle G2….Zune Brown 30 GB
Most people is dropping the Zune like it´s hot….
my bummer ; shoul read …. No. 76 – Zune Brown …
wha´evah !
To a real MS lover:
Your right, we appreciate art and can see things in it that you cannot. And the ‘Social’ that you attend is a festering melting pot of computer STD’s and XP isnt wearing any protection, we’ll see how long it lasts…..
Yeesh!
Give them a few months to get on their feet at least before you declare the thing a failure, would you? How many iPods sold in its first week?
Yup….It’s crack-a-lackin’
Nick,,,,a turd is a turd…not a tapered extention of a gut feeling extracted after sitting down into the thinking position. Don’t get me wrong…the Zune is crap. I am a realist and don’t color coat garbage. I can see art but if an artist paints a landscape over and over, is it still art? What is left to appreciate?
The iPod is functionally better than the Zune. Who cares about how pretty it is. A pragmatist cares about price and functionality (which includes quality). That it evokes feelings of pleasure as you fondle it doesn’t cut it.
So don’t give me that crap about art……un;ess you get off on fondling things.
More like a Social….disease!
And be careful not to be within ‘squirt’ range
Stop it with the Zune stories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!