A million Zunes

Guys, I am very disappointed. I've been an avid reader of TUAW for a long time, and over the past few months I've noticed a lot of low blows to competition to the Zune. What happened to the old, clean TUAW?

And that's only the black model according to KDT.

"1 Zune model vs. 9 iPod models."

True but the *one* 30GB Black iPod is outselling the Zune.

regardless of 'gloating" and your fuzzy stats (windows doesn't sell pcs, they only license the OS; if you compare apple pc sales vs. other pc manufacturers, your "20/15:1" "stat" is exposed for the soft-headed, misguided mantra you pc fanboys ave been regurgitating for 20 years), the fact remains the zune is a piece of shit. it's clunky, cheap-feeling, rickety and the screen is fuzzy. the "social" crippled wifi and rental song model is a stupid idea that will never take off 'cuz it's stupid. oh, and it comes in turd brown.

Zune does not distributed at my Country yet..
Hah!!

Good thing the editors at TUAW isn't biased against microsoft/for apple.

Let's see...

1 Zune model vs. 9 iPod models.

Average price of Zune models: $250 (1.30x more)
Average price of iPod models: $191 (0.76x less)

Years in existance for Zune: 1/12
Years in existance for iPod: 5+

Name recognition for Zune: Nearly nonexistant
Name recognition for iPod: People call all mp3 players 'ipod'

Accessories for Zune: 51 (0.11x less)
Accessories for iPod: 443 (8.68x more)

Color choices for Zune: 3 (0.50x less)
Color choices for iPod: 6 (2.00x more)

Every single listing above suggests that iPod has more of an ability to outsell Zune, especially name recognition and availability of accessories, but I don't see you guys actually reporting on this because apparently, when it comes to Microsoft, facts like these are easily overlooked to provide readers with unfair comparisons.

The ipod is the best all-round product in the market at this time as well as the past two years, in both service (iTms) and product execution. It has a fantastic store, amazing ease of use and is a status symbol/ubiqutus item label not seen since the walkman. The difference is that this tech is ever evolving, and if any of my fellow mac fan-boys think that this lead is insurmountable, give your head a shake. Like Quark Express when InDesign was released, if you sit on your laurels you can be left behind. InDesign was scoffed at by serious users in the beginning but all it needed was a revision or two to be a serious contender. I want apple to continue to do well, but like adobe, Microsoft has the money to eventually make this work by gen two or three. They can probably ride this out till at least gen five or six before they feel any financial sting, by then they will be making money.

Knock off the Zune coverage. It's getting annoying.

Here, humble yourself:
Windows based PC's will outsell Mac based PCs by 20 to 1 in 2007 (or, assuming Apple's new "get a mac" push is successful AND Vista falls flat on its face, 15 to 1 at the very best).

TUAW is great without all its "Apple is better than everyone else" garbage. Simply cover Apple. Since we HAVE to use Apples at work you help me to cope while in a dark and fiery place. But TUAW can be so annoying when they gloat over competing products (especially when competing products aren't even 4 weeks old).

Samsung's UMPC's do not cost a few dollars more, they're almost $1000 more and considerably larger...it's not something you can put in your pocket

I think this post belongs in the much needed "Gloat" category :P