After so much hype and the initial influx of buyers Zune HD sales, predictably, has slowed to a near crawl. Sexy as the hardware maybe, I not-so-secretly do want one, several key weaknesses contributed to its early decline. Three of them, for me, are lack of Mac OS X support, lack of a usable browser and lack of apps. So the Zune HD, at best, is an iPod nano competitor.
Using publicaly available sales data from Amazon.com it becomes apparent how much of a disaster the Zune HD is. The 32GB is 16th in sales and the 16GB is 28th. The top 20 obviously are all iPods except for the Sansa Fuze at 11 and the 32GB Zune HD at 16.
Microsoft truly blew its chance to not just make a comeback but to also take on the handheld gaming world. Better for them to re-release the Zune HD with hardware buttons and focus it as a PSP competitor. They have no chance against either DS nor iPod touch.
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