A survey from Eagle Research Group says that Zune owners may not be satisfied with the device, reported AppleTechNews. A survey undertaken by them shows that 70% of those questioned were intended to switch either to an iPod or iPhone.
The survey said ahead that the most convincing features of the iPhone is the ability to browse through music lists easily and also unlike other music players it allows to make calls too.
Other 30% who did not want to switch to iPhone said that the iPhone’s memory is too short and 22% say that they don’t like Apple, so they do not want to buy its products.
AppleTechNews also reported that 36% of Zune owners said that they would not have bought Microsoft’s Zune player if they knew Apple would produce such a revolutionary product like iPhone.
This is a joke right? You are reporting what a apple site (AppleTechNews) is reporting about Zune. This has to be a joke. Can u ever trust iFanBoys to come up with non biased point of view?
And the number of people polled was 3 and two of them were appletechnews editors.
The iphone is actually larger than the zune
Cough cough *bullshit* cough cough
The iPhone isn’t larger than the Zune. lol..get your facts straight. I don’t believe the numbers, but I’ll bet the number is not that low either
Read the article. AppleTechNews didn’t do the survey. A third party did; eagle research group.
Given that “3% of the survey group was affiliated with Microsoft”, they had to ask at least 33 people. Anyone heard of Eagle Research?
zune is much better than the ipod. much better infact the ipod is okay but the zune graffics rock.
I’m not sure how accurate the above-mentioned survey is. However, I will say that if I were to take that survey, I would be part of the disappointed Zune owners group. All the so-called iPod-killer functions underachieve in my opinion. I’ve yet to share a song via its wifi function, and because of that, the wifi function is absolutely useless to me. Also, the radio reception is horrible. I also find it ironic that the Zune isn’t even a Microsoft Plays for Sure certified device. I bought my Zune for all the features above; too bad they don’t function as I had imagined. Now I’m left with a bulky (compared to other “MP3” players) $250 paper weight that has an average (at best) battery life.
The Zune is a bigger device overall. While the iPhone is taller by 1/10th of an inch (4.5″ vs. 4.4″), they have the same width (2.4″) while the iPod is almost 25% slimmer (0.46″ vs. 0.6″). The iPhone weighs 4.8 ounces vs. the Zune’s 5.6 oz.
But the clincher is the screen. I remember meeting the one and only person I ever met who had a Zune. They were on a plane, and I asked them how they liked it. They said they did, and the best feature was the “big” screen. To be sure, the Zune has a 3″ screen, and that’s bigger than the iPod’s 2.5″ screen–but only technically. Both players present an identical 320 x 240-pixel resolution. In effect, the Zune has the exact same quality picture, they just increased the screen size, making the image “bigger” but less sharp. You could get the same effect by holding your iPod a few inches closer to your face.
In contrast, the iPhone has a 3.5″ screen which delivers 480 x 320-pixel resolution; not only a bigger physical screen, but *double* the resolution. So while the iPhone is physically smaller, it gives a bigger screen with twice the quality of a Zune’s.
Additionally, I don’t see how anyone could argue that the Zune has even close to the same quality of design and “Wow” factor as the iPhone; this is evident in sales, where the Zune sold in 10 months what the iPhone sold in 10 days (a million units).
Add to this the rather inevitable conclusion that Apple will be releasing a touchscreen WiFi iPod sometime in the near future, and–sorry, Zuners–you just *have* to ask, “Why the hell would you ever want to buy a Zune?”
In light of all this, the idea that 70% of Zune users would look at an iPhone and say, “I wouldn’t mind trading in for one of those” is far from inconceivable. That said, I would not repost on my blog a story without more verification–what kind of survey, what methodology, what questions, etc. It *could* be a hoax. Nonetheless, it is *not* beyond belief.
I bought an iPhone mainly for a phone that was straightfoward to use. What surprised me is how it rocks for watching tv shows and movies. Battery life is great and the picture looks like a mini HD set. I sometimes forget its a phone because it fulfills the video iPod vision so perfectly.