http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/ Engadget Comments for Brown Zune now Amazon's #1-selling DAP http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/
MS: "hey Engadget if we buy a whole bunch of Brown Zunes at 1pm PST from Amazon will you report the story? We will send you some free Zunes!"

Engadget: "Can you send us an iPod Touch instead?"

MS: "yeah I guess"

Endgadget: "sure we will breach journalistic integrity, wooo hooo!!"

Seriously though, I dont know that the Amazon sales ranker is the best way of measuring the success of a device. From what I have seen it's not very accurate becuase some items are miss categorized or fragmented into color and version number. This doesn't allow all DAPs to compete on an even field.



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To bad you can't post comments there anymore. The "author" got upset the public was criticizing her. And on a site's comment section of all places! The nerve of those people!]]>Nov 13th 2007 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 14th 2007 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/
Apparently its still #1 today so good for brown!

people take this whole Zune vs iPod thing way to seriously - they are just MP3 players - unless your a total brainwashed fanboy you will use the one with the best features for your taste.

I happen to agree with Engadget, Microsoft has the potential to make a killer DAP - not sure why they think they need to compete with iPods at all.

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I could've saved 10 more bucks if I would've shopped around....

Oh well, now to find a case for it to hide the brown.....

help me out guys]]>Nov 13th 2007 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/
No, that's the only reason I'm not getting one.]]>Nov 13th 2007 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/
They also show up basically just like hard drives (so you can store files on them and use it as a portable hard drive) and there are third party, open source utilities made for linux.

As far as i Know, there are no easy to use utilities available to OSX or linux users for the zune. Basically creating a closed platform for it. either use windows or hit the road, and if MS wants iPod like market share, they really should create at least a minimal, easy to use mac software for the zunes. That is pretty much the only reason that I simply walk by the zunes laughing while listening to my 30gig 5.5gen iPod. As long as it doesn't work on OSX or linux I will simply ignore it.]]>Nov 14th 2007 12:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/
and lol, poop-colored Zoooooooon]]>Nov 13th 2007 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/
Sarcasm, you say? Sorry, still stupid.]]>Nov 13th 2007 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/
Hey, I'm with blade417, someone post some links to some tight Zune cases. I need one too, not to cover up the color though.]]>Nov 13th 2007 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Speck Toughskin:
http://tinyurl.com/2239bu
Belkin Leather:
http://tinyurl.com/ype4sh

(I ordered the Belkin, just a personal preference, probably the Speck gives better protection.)]]>Nov 13th 2007 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/
http://www.shieldzone.com/item_description/MSFTZN.html]]>Nov 13th 2007 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/
The brown is not bad looking unless you are under normal light. ]]>Nov 13th 2007 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/reason why it sell now is that everyone ive shown it to was amazed at how the real life one can change their impression of the zune completely. even i used to ignore the thing completely until i spot a discount online, bought it and are amazed how a decent thing like that is ignored.]]>Nov 13th 2007 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/
And it is #1 on www.cnet.com Top 20 Gadget list. Besting the Wii, iPhone and iTouch.
http://www.cnet.com/4520-4_1-6541088-1.html

Welcome to the Social, Engadget.]]>Nov 13th 2007 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/
And if you look at the top 25 MP3 players on Amazon -right now- 13 are iPods, with 3 of them in the top 5 most popular players.

At their current price point, I'm not too surprised that the Zune30 is the top seller. The iPod 80GB Classic is a slightly better deal on a cost per GB basis, but at ~$249 it's more than what a lot of folks (ie: parents/friends) want to spend on a DAP for Christmas. $127 for a 30GB player with a relatively big screen, or better yet $99 at newegg or the $89 Amazon deal, makes it almost a no-brainer, especially looking at the 4GB nano for $149.]]>Nov 13th 2007 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Keep selling units? Come-on'!]]>Nov 13th 2007 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.ebay.com]]>Nov 13th 2007 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/Nov 13th 2007 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/brown-zune-now-amazons-1-selling-dap/
If MS would have launched a brown Zune 80 I would seriously contemplate buying one. The gen 1 is just too big for exercising- which is probably where I would use it the most.

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