It will also offer HD movies, some of which will have 5. The movies can be purchased or rented; Movie Parties will also be available. Zune Marketplace TV shows come from:. As of Zune 4. The store initially launched with 9 apps, all of which were developed by Microsoft and released for free. On November 9, Microsoft released 6 new apps 5 being games. A collection of basic games are available for non-HD Zune models. Microsoft launched several campaigns to jump-start the Zune.
The company had a major campaign to promote Zune with "Music the way it wants to be" as a major theme and "Welcome to the social" as an advertisement tagline. Also, the company enlisted about "Zune-masters" to advertise the device on American college campuses, to promote the item, and to run Zune-related events.
In exchange, they received free merchandise, including a Zune. Additionally, Microsoft launched an attempt at viral marketing with its comingzune site, complete with several videos in succession. Along with ZuneInsider , and several other ad hoc events, Microsoft hoped to generate buzz for the product outside of the normal marketing avenues, and market its product as a part of a social construct.
The choice of brand and distribution were part of the Zune as a decision of "two strategies in the market right now: cross-brand ecosystems The former is gaining in share and units sold, but the latter has enormous share and won't give that up easily. Microsoft normally follows a platform cross-brand strategy, as exemplified by the PlaysForSure system. However, its Xbox division has gained some experience with the vertically-integrated strategy in which it controls everything end-to-end from the hardware to the online store.
With Apple dominating the audio market with its vertically-integrated iPod system, the Xbox division won permission to try the same approach, separately from PlaysForSure and PlayReady. Microsoft also wanted to go beyond Apple's efforts and promote the tagline "the social" and wireless sharing as key differentiators. Chris Stephenson, leader of Zune's marketing and manager of Global Marketing for the Entertainment Business, said, "we see a great opportunity to bring together technology and community to allow consumers to explore and discover music together.
Microsoft also released a Zune theme for Windows XP that replaced the appearance of the operating system. Zune has also expanded its brand efforts by creating a Millennial -friendly website and campaign focused on emerging artist talent: Zune Arts. MySpace has added the feature to label music players on personal profiles to Zune-themed or a red Zune 8.
According to Bloomberg Television 1. On May 6, , Microsoft announced that it had sold just over 2 million Zunes. Roughly one million of those were sold since the second generation Zunes launched in November On May 22, , It was reported that GameStop "has decided to stop selling Microsoft's Zune players at its stores due to what it sees as insufficient demand from customers. Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart, and others. This may be due to the company's decision not to substantially update the Zune hardware in the fall of Amazon is listing a month wait for the 16GB model and a week wait for the 32GB".
Microsoft released the Zune to Canadian consumers on June 13, , marking the first time it was available outside the U. Microsoft has even made efforts to ban visitors outside the United States from Zune Originals. Users wishing to sign up for a Zune Tag can easily circumvent most problems by signing up for a US-based account.
The Zune 2. East Asian characters used in Chinese and Japanese, for example, show up on the Zune device as small boxes instead of characters.
Microsoft's Zune desktop software has no problem with Unicode. Users have improvised ways to downgrade the firmware on the Zune device to older version that support Asian characters V1 Zunes can be hacked to display Asian font.
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To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Microsoft may have killed off its flagship MP3 player nearly a decade ago, but these fans are keeping their enthusiasm alive. It was weird to own a Zune in It is even weirder to own a Zune in — let alone 16 of them. And yet, year-old Conner Woods proudly shows off his lineup on a kitchen table. They come in all different colors, shapes, and sizes, and each can be identified by that telltale black plastic D-pad just below the screen.
Woods picked up his Zune foraging habit during the pandemic, while he was furloughed from his job working security at Best Buy. Woods owns multiple Zune-stamped traveling cases and boombox docks. Microsoft spent most of the s a few steps behind Apple. Apple iPhone 6 Plus. Apple iPhone 8. BlackBerry Passport.
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