Everybody Pour Out A Little Today For The Zune
It’s not all good cheer and popped champagne corks today in the music tech world. No, not for our lowly homey the Zune, whose retail prices were summarily chopped by 50 clams to $200 yesterday according to Billboard, which also notes that pokerfaced Microsoft is claiming it’s a totally natural business move on their part for a longstanding, beloved product and that it maybe, kinda, sorta had a little something to do with all the new iPod hubbub today. And Zune fans are now wondering if the three of them will soon be able to buy an inferior telecommunications device as well, as Zunestress of Doom and Microsoft CEO Mindy Mount said a ZunePhone “wouldn’t be unreasonable.” By which I think she meant, “We’ll say damn near anything to get you to stop gazing longingly at studly Steve Jobs for just 30 seconds.”
Zune Prices Cut [Billboard]
