Zune Still Under 1 Million in Sales But Better Than First iPod
29 05 2007 
So we got it wrong, along with the rest of the tech blogging world and a bunch of very respected print publication. Zune went over a million only through a mis-transcription by The San Francisco Chronicle. Robbie Bach didn’t say that Mcrosoft has sold over a million Zunes already since November. What he said was, “When we finish our fiscal year in June we’ll have sold a little over a million Zunes, so we feel very good about that.”
It’s still a pretty good pace, however, for the hard-drive based Zune, better in fact than the iPod which only sold 600k hard-drive players in its first 14 months.
What’s even more interesting than whether or not Microsoft will sell their millionth Zune by the end of June (which, to be honest, is the definition of a foregone conclusion), but rather whether this million Zunes were actually bought by people or just gathering dust inside the stores? Tommo_UK, posting at The Mac Observer, seemed certain that this is just a million Zunes transported to stores and not Zune-in-consumer-hands.
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