http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/ Engadget Comments for Zune to hit Canada in May with a smaller lineup? 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/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.zuneboards.com/forums/zune-talk/21116-green-zune-4-8-dropped-lineup-rumor.html?highlight=green+canada]]>May 1st 2008 6:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/May 1st 2008 7:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/
:D]]>May 1st 2008 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/May 1st 2008 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/
Thanks, I'd rather shoot myself in the foot with soup spoon.]]>May 1st 2008 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/
I love my Zune 80.]]>May 1st 2008 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://reviews.cnet.com/mp3-players/samsung-yp-p2-8gb/4505-6490_7-32588459.html?tag=prod.txt.1


CNET Review of Zune 80: 8.3
http://reviews.cnet.com/portable-video-players-pvps/zune-second-generation-80gb/4505-6499_7-32638989.html?tag=prod.txt.1

Proud Zune 80 owner!]]>May 1st 2008 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/As much as I hate Apple, you can't deny the huge market share controlled by iPods and iPhones. Microsoft should have been working on a Windows based smartphone instead of the Zune - released before the iPhone.
Now, they are playing catchup.

Microsofts only true success lately has been the 360's mulitplayer online experience.
If I were head of Microsoft right now, I'd be designing a portable XBOX system - PSP killer - with built in VoIP, GSM/ 3G running a chopped down version of the 360's OS.

I guarantee you I'd make billions with multiplayer versions of GTA4 and Halo on a portable system.

Why the hell is Microsoft playing catch up to Apple AND Sony? They are the larger company.]]>May 1st 2008 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/
People are importing them all around the world, maybe not iPhone crazy, but still - it's a popular device.

Their inclusion of quality canalphones in the Zune 80 was very impressive, as is their continued support for the Zune 30 (upgrading it to the newest firmware and adding all the new features).]]>May 1st 2008 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/
First off all, are you really carting out statistics from a year ago? Not sure how relevant that is now.

Also, can you please post said statistics. Microsoft has an uncanny ability to inflate market share by defining the market so specifically. Like, was it 11.3% if hard drive based media players, flash media players, all media players, media players whose name starts with the letter "Z".
]]>May 1st 2008 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/

wait a tick...

That is to say that it's never too late for a good product well placed.]]>May 1st 2008 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/
"I seem to remember them playing catchup in the browser wars back in the day too. They started WAY too late, and now Netscape owns all your browsers!
wait a tick...
That is to say that it's never too late for a good product well placed."


Talk about reality distortion field syndrome. You must have just crawled out from under a rock. IE destroyed Netscape from the desktop because it was a better product and well placed? The hilarity of a Zune lovers mind set continues.


]]>May 1st 2008 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/
Stop nit picking and look at the larger picture. What defines if something it better or successful is if people use it. Netscape was not better, even after they made it free, or it would still be around. Saying that IE was bundled with Windows is the reason is a crock, if it were true Firefox wouldn't exist either.

This has nothing to do with if IE is a better browser now, it has to do with what it competed against at the time - just like Zune is not competing with the iPod that is coming out 5 years from now, it's competing with what is on the market now. People have a right to choose, they do so with their money, and if they want to suppport one or the other they do it by buying that product.

It always amazes me that those who are the most rabid are who tend to point their zealous fingers at other first. I hear cries of support for the underdog products when they are competing against MS, and how the competition is good and drive innovation, but when it comes to a product competing with Apple, the shoe is always on the other foot.]]>May 1st 2008 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/

You choose to ignore the facts. Illegal activities, bundling.... Your statements are absolutely ridiculous. IE crushed Netscape and you know exactly why...]]>May 1st 2008 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/
What's sad is that you actually believe this. If something is inferior, consumers will not use it. No matter if it's free or not. ]]>May 1st 2008 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/
just felt like saying it :P]]>May 1st 2008 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/May 1st 2008 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/
Unless you're telling it'll be given free to anyone dumb enough to have bought Vista (me: guilty), what's this Zune thing got to offer anyway.]]>May 1st 2008 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/May 1st 2008 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/May 1st 2008 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/May 1st 2008 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/May 1st 2008 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/
It's standard practice for American companies with Canadian subsidiaries to sell a smaller set of products up here than they do in the US, if they even sell the line at all.

Samsung Canada, for example, doesn't sell ANY of their laptops or UMPCs in Canada - while having an agreement with Samsung USA preventing the sale of American models in Canada (even though they're all approved by the DOC and Industry Canada).

Toshiba, like most computer companies, sells one or two preconfigured versions of their laptops and no BTO models, and charges a substantially higher price. My Tosh M700 would have cost me $600 more if I'd bought it in Canada - even though the CDN dollar is essentially at par with the US.

Stores like TigerDirect and Buy.com do the same thing. They find a Canadian reseller to use their name, and then offer a much smaller subset of products - while charging more - yet allow pretty much everyone else in the world to order from their US sites while preventing Canadians from doing so.

Apparently these businesses don't realise that Canadians can actually see their American websites and so can do comparative shopping.

The real irony? Toshiba Canada claims that their prices are higher because they buy their laptops from Toshiba Japan directly while Toshiba US builds their own. Ignoring the fact that this is simply not true, it's also stupid. If it IS true, then Tosh Canada should OEM the Tosh US products and add say $100 to the price. They'd make a nice profit (after all the companies in the US who sell Toshibas like CDW seem to), they could defer the shipping to the customer, the production to Tosh US and offer a complete product line.

Toshiba Canada doesn't even do their own warranty work - so they could easily handle that by doing what they do now - deferring to their authorised warranty dealers.

So, yeah, getting shafted by companies is pretty much the norm up here.]]>May 1st 2008 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/May 1st 2008 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/
Look at the date on the post: March 13th!

A little late, ol' boys. :)]]>May 1st 2008 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/
1. Fear of losing DRM tracks.
2. Way to slow to bring out new features.
3. Zune Marketplace Sucks.
4. Squirting my tunes to a friends sounds gay.
5. Not able to edit id3 tags.
6. Battery life not great.

Reasons to not buy an Ipod.

1. Apple builds them. Nuff Said.

Oh and people who get mad because the Zune market place on a Mac? DUH. I have an iceberg I would like to sell you.. Excellent terms.]]>May 1st 2008 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/May 1st 2008 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/zune-to-hit-canada-with-a-smaller-lineup/May 6th 2008 7:18AM