The battle between Apple’s iPod Touch and Microsoft’s Zune HD just got more fierce. Microsoft has announced its intentions of selling the Zune HD outside the the U.S. of A.
Released stateside this past September, the Zune HD is set for release in several countries in the new year including Australia, France, Germany and the U.K. The news comes as Microsoft has announced the launch of its instant on-demand movie streaming service for the Xbox 360, to be branded as Zune.
Christine Heckart, general manager for TV, video and music marketing at Microsoft, told the Financial Times, “This is a very important step for us to introduce Zune to new consumers around the world.”
The Zune HD has some catching-up to do if it is to tackle the behemoth that is the iPod Touch. According to Wikipedia, Apple has sold over 20 million iPod Touch’s alone. In fact, both the first and second generation Zunes have captured an estimated 2% of the MP3 player market, compared to Apple’s 73%.
[via digitalmediawire]
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nick dafo
on Nov 18th, 2009
@ 2:10 pm:
this is not an mp3 player !
it is a multimedia player !
Gavin Smith
on Nov 20th, 2009
@ 4:02 am:
That is true; it does however still play audio files