Zune Update!

Here is the link to the Toshiba's submission to FCC for the proposed Zune audio player. Click Here

Bryan Lee, Corporate Vice President Entertainment and Devices Division, Microsoft, during Citigroup's Global Technology Conference in New York said "... We see this space as having the potential scale not of today's market, which sells 30, 40 million devices, but of something closer to the cell phone market, where you sell hundreds of millions of devices....As we've gone out and talked to consumers about Zune, we've asked them, 'Do you feel you have choice in the space?' and we get a resounding, 'Yes, we have a lot of choice -- you can get a Shuffle, a Nano, a video iPod.' ... Which just amplifies the challenge that we face."

He added, on the choice of Toshiba as manufacturer "...we knew that we needed some contract manufacturing, someone to help us. Much like with the Xbox business, we don't literally run the factories. ... We do a lot of the design. So we picked Toshiba. They brought experience in the space that we didn't have. They brought some of the foundational technology, but the device that you see will not look or feel or smell very much like the product that they've taken to market thus far." Courtesy : Source