Comments on: What About Zune? http://www.crunchgear.com/2006/10/11/what-about-zune/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:45:55 -0500 hourly 1 By: Secret list building software http://www.crunchgear.com/2006/10/11/what-about-zune/comment-page-1/#comment-321233 Secret list building software Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:36:20 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2006/10/11/what-about-zune/#comment-321233 <strong>Secret list building software...</strong> Thanks a lot for your blog post - definitely well written... Secret list building software…

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]]> By: Patrick http://www.crunchgear.com/2006/10/11/what-about-zune/comment-page-1/#comment-7111 Patrick Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:33:54 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2006/10/11/what-about-zune/#comment-7111 Just thought I should point out something that seems odd with this guys (from roughlydrafted - how ironic) statistics. Symbian OS has approximately 50% market share according to zdnet and a few other places. This is interesting because such places claim windows mobile is around 17% in that particular area. What i'm (guessing) this guy did is find stats on how many Nokia S40 devices are out there and tack them onto some of his own statistics. Nokia S40 devices do run a sort of symbian OS. But in this case his comparison is entirely unfair. Smartphones are sold no where near as often as normal handsets. Also, I beg to differ regarding Microsofts "big secret". What other OS are people supposed to use? Like seriously - Apple won't sell OSX and linux isn't a viable alternative for many people. It makes sense for PC manufacturers to package XP with a device they manufacture. If Apple decided it would let other manufacturers use OSX then maybe we'd see something interesting... Then again... Maybe not. That being said apple needs to focus. I hope they're seriously making a shift to a more media centric company - They do media stuff *really* well. If they aren't I don't think they'll ever achieve significant market share in the computer domain as it currently stands. Their ITV thing and the ipod is where its all at for them now. There computers are nice but not all that commonly used. People say they're popular in media centric businesses/industries but from my experience there is plenty of sound/video people that use both platforms. Microsoft is making a shift too - all this "Live" junk. Microsoft wants to destroy the need for things like myspace. They're building bits and pieces of software (and hardware - zune and xbox) that are letting people do this whole obsessive social networking thing. One big umbrella for all my friends sure is tempting... Tempting and not very likely from where I stand... But one big umbrella kind of does already exist for microsoft, and if they leverage what they've got well, then there is an interesting opportunity for them. Just thought I should point out something that seems odd with this guys (from roughlydrafted – how ironic) statistics.
Symbian OS has approximately 50% market share according to zdnet and a few other places.
This is interesting because such places claim windows mobile is around 17% in that particular area.

What i’m (guessing) this guy did is find stats on how many Nokia S40 devices are out there and tack them onto some of his own statistics.
Nokia S40 devices do run a sort of symbian OS. But in this case his comparison is entirely unfair. Smartphones are sold no where near as often as normal handsets.

Also, I beg to differ regarding Microsofts “big secret”. What other OS are people supposed to use? Like seriously – Apple won’t sell OSX and linux isn’t a viable alternative for many people.

It makes sense for PC manufacturers to package XP with a device they manufacture. If Apple decided it would let other manufacturers use OSX then maybe we’d see something interesting… Then again… Maybe not.

That being said apple needs to focus. I hope they’re seriously making a shift to a more media centric company – They do media stuff *really* well. If they aren’t I don’t think they’ll ever achieve significant market share in the computer domain as it currently stands. Their ITV thing and the ipod is where its all at for them now. There computers are nice but not all that commonly used. People say they’re popular in media centric businesses/industries but from my experience there is plenty of sound/video people that use both platforms.

Microsoft is making a shift too – all this “Live” junk. Microsoft wants to destroy the need for things like myspace. They’re building bits and pieces of software (and hardware – zune and xbox) that are letting people do this whole obsessive social networking thing. One big umbrella for all my friends sure is tempting… Tempting and not very likely from where I stand… But one big umbrella kind of does already exist for microsoft, and if they leverage what they’ve got well, then there is an interesting opportunity for them.

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