For someone who doesn't necessarily make an assload of money and just wants soemthing to play music you really can't blame them for going the cheaper route.
The Zune has FM and WiFi (which just became a tad more useful now with the new firmware) which iPods don't have, and can play WMV/WMA media without conversion, which is pretty ubiquitous by now on the web.
And also what other people said: large storage devices always offer less $/MB.
That doesn't mean you can take advantage of this and pay less by buying a 1/2 iPod. You still buy the whole of it.
This sort of reminds me of the Netscape, Internet Explorer war, which one was better?
Netscape had a larger market share and more *sales* over I.E.
Then one day we all woke up and found out that I.E. was for FREE... Next thing we new I.E was the best thing in the universe and most peps forgot about Netscape. The damage was done!
I see something like this happening to Apple. Please take note... Apple does not participate in competitive, cut throat, dirt cheap sales like their competitors “yet most of their products are made in China so I don’t know what the issue with their outrageous prices. After all, it is manufactured in China because it supposes to be cheaper than the US.” They are in a catch-22 situation. One day, they will need to lower their prices to be more competitive with their competition however their higher price tags suggests that the consumer is purchasing some sort of *prestige product* or an better product overall "it just works!" Perhaps this is one of the reasons why their market share is between 3-5 percent?
If Microsoft wants the DAP market they have tones of resources… Microsoft is no dummy.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Here's what's amazing:
Old-version, refurbished 30GB Zune: $3.33 per GB
New 80GB iPod: $3.13
New 160GB iPod: $2.19
Crazy.
Ok...
Brand New iPod 5.5 30 GB on Amazon: $4.96 per GB
For someone who doesn't necessarily make an assload of money and just wants soemthing to play music you really can't blame them for going the cheaper route.
Why is that crazy? You have always been able to get more GB (or whatever) for your money when you buy in bulk.
The Zune has FM and WiFi (which just became a tad more useful now with the new firmware) which iPods don't have, and can play WMV/WMA media without conversion, which is pretty ubiquitous by now on the web.
And also what other people said: large storage devices always offer less $/MB.
That doesn't mean you can take advantage of this and pay less by buying a 1/2 iPod. You still buy the whole of it.
The only place I've ever seen WMA audio is off of something like KazAa, and it was rare.....
This sort of reminds me of the Netscape, Internet Explorer war, which one was better?
Netscape had a larger market share and more *sales* over I.E.
Then one day we all woke up and found out that I.E. was for FREE... Next thing we new I.E was the best thing in the universe and most peps forgot about Netscape. The damage was done!
I see something like this happening to Apple. Please take note... Apple does not participate in competitive, cut throat, dirt cheap sales like their competitors “yet most of their products are made in China so I don’t know what the issue with their outrageous prices. After all, it is manufactured in China because it supposes to be cheaper than the US.” They are in a catch-22 situation. One day, they will need to lower their prices to be more competitive with their competition however their higher price tags suggests that the consumer is purchasing some sort of *prestige product* or an better product overall "it just works!" Perhaps this is one of the reasons why their market share is between 3-5 percent?
If Microsoft wants the DAP market they have tones of resources… Microsoft is no dummy.
$100 Zune + $100 80GB upgrade at pacific Geek = best bang for the buck
Stick the extra 30GB drive in an enclosure for use.
But you still pay 150% more for the iPod. Please find me a 30GB iPod for $94.
Here's what is more amazing:
The cheapest I could find a refurbished 30 gb ipod is $169 which comes out to about
$5.63 per gb
=/