Financial Times: Hm. Seems Microsoft hasn’t got it quite right with Version 1.0 of its Zune player. No one thought the first Zunes would leave much of a dent, a blemish or even a pin-prick in the iPod’s unassailable market share – but the early signs do not look good measured against even those modest expectations.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the Zune player had fallen to number 95 in Amazon’s list of 100 best-selling electronic gadgets in the US at what is a peak moment in the Christmas sales season. That puts it somewhere below the American Red Cross’ emergency radio and Logitech’s advanced universal remote.
Even more of a concern for Microsoft, Creative’s 30GB Zen Vision and SanDisk’s 2GB flash player make it into Amazon’s top 25. Zune was meant at least to provide some serious competition to other MP3 players as Microsoft works out how to take on Apple with future versions. (…)
Update: seems like Engadget has got a completely different story on Zune…
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