Xbox 360 dilemma, Zune made out of the same area = IPod King for a day longer?
Microsoft has one big problem- A hefty amount of Xbox 360s are on the way back for repair. Microsoft said they will take a 1 Billion dollar hit on this 'recall'
My question is- Since the Zune player is out of the same entertainment and devices division will the people working on the Zune be pulled over to work on repairs / testing ?
We all know how little things can cause set backs- Like Apple having to delay OS X for the iPhone
Story below--
"SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it expects to spend more than $1 billion to repair widespread hardware problems in its Xbox 360 video game console after a large number of them broke down............"
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/..._Warranty.html
My question is- Since the Zune player is out of the same entertainment and devices division will the people working on the Zune be pulled over to work on repairs / testing ?
We all know how little things can cause set backs- Like Apple having to delay OS X for the iPhone
Story below--
"SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it expects to spend more than $1 billion to repair widespread hardware problems in its Xbox 360 video game console after a large number of them broke down............"
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/..._Warranty.html
Comments
I haven't heard a single bit of news about them since the microsoft fanboys all got them in November and they've sold about 7 after that. (M$ followers are sad. At least us Apple fanboys actually have something cool/exciting/not sucky to be fawning about ) Just wait for the zune 2, which comes in exciting new colors like baby-barf green, as well as urine yellow and the original poo brown.
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=74878
Guess the problem was that serious. Still, it's Microsoft taking the hit, not the consumers. Maybe I'll get a 360 to increase their losses.
The fact that the PS3 is this big boxy thing, that an nVidia 8800GTS can demolish current PS3 game graphics... I could go on but it would just be (more) flame baiting.
What's a Zune?
I haven't heard a single bit of news about them since the microsoft fanboys all got them in November and they've sold about 7 after that. (M$ followers are sad. At least us Apple fanboys actually have something cool/exciting/not sucky to be fawning about ) Just wait for the zune 2, which comes in exciting new colors like baby-barf green, as well as urine yellow and the original poo brown.
For what it's worth*, on a total-units-sold basis iPod + iPhone will demolish all sales of Xbox360 + Zune, I predict... for July 2007 to June 2008. (Deja vu, man... I feel like I have posted this sentence about 3 times already in the past few years...).
*Profit margin, marketshare, marketing costs, whatever else aside. Though if you factor this in (even including Microsoft game unit (actual game DVDs) profits), the Zune + Xbox360 looks even worse.