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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
I've been wondering about the marketshare numbers for a while now, and it seems ignorance might have been a more comfortable place to be - the number aren't all that encouraging. From November 2006 to July 2007 (Microsoft's fiscal year end), they sold about 1.2 million Zunes - and these are the Zune 30 models. So that means, essentially that from the launch of the second-gen players in November 2007 until now-ish, they've sold 800K units. 800K units in roughly five months. Wait a second, so that means roughly 160K units per month, on average. Extrapolate that out 12 months, assuming flat growth, and you've got roughly 1.9 million Zunes being sold between now and the end of April 2009. Isn't that...good?
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I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say. If in the first 7-month period they sold about 800k, and the same for the second period, isn't that flat? Or are you saying that the absolute 2 million sales is a good thing?
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Have I mentioned I dislike the way statistics can be made to look positive or negative?
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That isn't the statistics' fault -- it's a matter of how they're applied. You can say that pretty much any datapoint, statistical or absolute, can be made to look positive or negative.
"Only 2 million units? That's nothing."
--janak