No surprise iPod Crushes Zune for Holiday sales
I don’t think there are any surprises here but iPod didhave a strong Holiday season and Zune has a long way to go before it can be called the “iPod Killer”.
There has been a happy debut for Zune in November, but the end of the year shows very few people bought a Zune to make it a Christmas present for their beloved ones. iPod and iTunes rule the market.According to Gartner Inc., the mobile music market will grow strongly through 2010, to more than five times its size at the end of 2005, and reach $32 billion. Mobile operators stand to gain a lot, but face many hurdles in the race to be the main winners in this market.
So how are the two main competitors on the market doing? Well, it seems iPod maintained its undeniable supremacy this year too, while Zune only enjoyed a brief period of glory, right after its launch.
It looks like iPod’s success is not only ensuring Apple’s dominance in the MP3 player market, but it also skyrockets the sales on iTunes. In the pre-Christmas period, users literally attacked Apple’s music download service, probably overwhelming the company’s servers and exceeding even the most optimistic expectations of the Cupertino-based giant. This is why most of them started complaining about long downloading intervals and receiving error messages. Written by Alfred @ Zune MAX - Visit my Zune Card in the Zune forums now!No tag for this post.
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