Re: Zune reaches 2m sales, flat versus =?ISO-8859-1?Q?iPod=B2?=

In article <Tradnfi3uYAbzLjVnZ2dnUVZ_qPinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Steve de Mena <steve@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Mitch wrote:
> > In article <2008050921102216807-jcrnospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, John C.
> > Randolph <jcr.nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 
> >> Sold, or  channel-stuffed?   If they're sitting on the shelves at 
> >> Wal-mart, that's not a sale in my book.
> > 
> > 
> > That's completely right -- Microsoft loves to re****t their own 'sales'
> > (wholesale distribution) to make it look like their products are going
> > to excited end-users. They've even used contract numbers (contracts
for
> > long-term sales) which hadn't been sent out to fill out numbers.
> > 
> > It's almost certain that they are merely re****ting their wholesale
> > contracts -- but it certainly sounds like they are trying to say that
> > these devices are popular and being used, doesn't it?
> 
> Microsoft is re****ting sales the way every other company on the 
> planet, Apple included, probably does.

I think so too.



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