iPod USB Power Adapter Beats Zune on Amazon

Wow, I expected apple fan boy smugness in this article, but was pleasantly proven wrong. Nice to see not all fit the stereotype.

Yeah, too much Zune 'news', but seriously Apple can learn something from the Zune - there are elements to the GUI that work a lot better than the iPod - a portrait screen for lists and having the artwork take up larger space as a background, and the iPod feels too wide in my hand. How about an iPod unit the same size, slightly narrower with a widescreen and smaller nano wheel?

An iPod power cord adaptor thingy outselling a hyped MP3 player.

..that's hilarious.

I've been an MS stock holder for well over twenty years and an AAPL stock holder for four. It's bits of info like this that helps me make investment decisions. Please keep posting this stuff.

BTW, I purchased a brown Zune when it first came out. The hardware is okay but the device's software and online experience sucked. Oh, and WiFi ate battery life at an alarming rate.

I'm sorry, I need to get this out. I agree that Zune is, in its infancy, not touching the iPod. But, I am quickly tiring of coverage on the issue in mac or mac-friendly tech blogs, especially coverage that is incredibly biased and based on data that compares apples (no pun intended) to oranges (power supply for $30 vs a $250 mp3 player?). What needs to be said, namely that the Zune has good points and not-so-good points and that it will need some help before it actually kills the iPod in its current incarnation, HAS BEEN SAID. Can we lay it to rest now, TUAW? I think your readership is getting bored and feeling like you just have nothing left to say about actual Apple and Apple-related products...

I played around with a Zune in a few places and its:
not cheap feeling-at least, no more so than the iPods I've seen
has the best looking screen on any such device
has an easy to use interface
and looks just as cool as any other mp3 player can

The Zune software is ok, not great. iTunes is better, but not by a whole lot. Both could use a great deal more work, especially in the interface arena. iTunes is looking old and tired while the Zune software is just plain tacky.
Also, if I'm not mistaken, Amazon has split up the sales of the Zune...so, doesn't that skew the numbers a bit? I've also read several other stories that have it's sales way better and, in fact, in the number two spot, among mp3 players.

Is this the power adaptor that allows you to charge your ipod from the mains ? If so people are buying it solely because it shoul dhave come in the box but didn't...

FFS does the Apple greatness have to be predicated on the bashing of competitors ? I have a new 20" iMac and its suffering from a known airport connectiviy problem and a known iTunes stuttering problem. I thought each and every Apple product was blessed by angels before shipping ...

I don't care a whit about the Zune. Well, maybe *one* whit: the poorer it does the less I have to worry about another DRM'd and proprietary format poisoning the market.

WMA is bad enough as it is. (why for the love of Mike, for example, does my new Olympus voice recorder output WMA files instead of mp3?!?)... But then, I'm someone who won't buy another iTMS track until hymn is updated... ;-)

warm and fuzzy inside?

posts like this make me wanna sell my macbook.

plus, this is like saying "windows still sells more than os x".

I was in my local CompUSA (San Francisco Bay Area) and asked the guy behind the counter about how the Zune was selling.

He said they have sold 4 (in total - since the introduction). His estimate was that iPod sales were 25 times that.

The store did have the Zune (working) on display in 2 different parts of the store.