Microsoft: Zune #2 Over Holidays
Microsoft is touting sales figures that show the Zune was the second-best selling hard-drive based MP3 player during the holiday season, behind a certain “entrenched competitor” (their words). It’s an interesting statistic, completely ignoring Flash-based MP3 players, but that the Zune has picked up 10.2% of the market (and no one else has) points to at least a good start for Microsoft’s media device, one it has to build on to be successful long-term.
In another Zune-related story, turns out as many as 40% of all songs can’t be transferred to other Zunes due to DRM restrictions. Naturally, this makes zero sense, since the songs expire after just three days, and is a concession Microsoft should never have made to the recording industry.
