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Was he inebriated? Do you even know anyone who owns a Zune?”

–- Apple CEO Steve Jobs

Apparently not. And, perhaps, you never will. Because GameStop has stopped selling Zunes.

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Despite its feature differentiations and, er, “distinctive” color palette, Microsoft’s Zune has yet to prove itself the iPod killer it was once touted as. Since its launch in November of 2006, the Zune has sold 2 million units. In comparison, Apple in its last quarter sold 10.6 million iPods–quintuple Microsoft’s cumulative sales to date.

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Apple introduced a new version of its eight gigabyte iPod nano digital media player this morning. And it’s pink, which according to Apple is among the iPod’s “much-requested” colors (noticeably absent from that list: the “National Park Bench Brown” shade pioneered by Microsoft’s Zune team.)
“Customers are going to love the gorgeous new pink iPod nano,” [...]

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Tonight, tech’s highest roller gave what may have been his final Vegas performance. Sadly, it was far from his most memorable. All glitz and very little glory–certainly not the sort of glory befitting such an iconic figure. In the end, the memory of the event that lingers longest is not Gates reflecting on his storied [...]

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According to last year’s looking-ahead-to-the-year- to-come lists, 2007 was to be “a year of hyperdisruption for the technology industry.” It was to be “a year of carnage.” But it was also to be “a year of great happiness and multiple blessings.” Above all, 2007 was to be “a busy year for technology.” Which, as you’ll see below, is pretty much how it turned out. What follows is Digital Daily’s abridged guide to the year in tech news–a fond reminiscence of what was, and our First Annual Year-End List For Year-End List Haters.

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If terms of Nokia’s new “Comes with Music” program appear impossibly generous to the consumer, who will pay no monthly fees for Universal Music Group’s entire catalog, it’s because they are.
Though “Comes with Music” does indeed permit owners of certain Nokia cellphones to download as many songs as humanly possible in one year (with no [...]

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Note: John Paczkowski is on vacation and won’t be writing or posting videos until he returns next Monday, Dec. 3.

To keep you abreast of tech news while he’s away, we’re compiling a daily digest of 10 must-read tech stories.

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If Jeff Bezos truly hopes to create “the iPod of reading,” observers say he’s going to have to do a hell of a lot better than Amazon’s new Kindle e-book reader. Because though Kindle, with its paperback-sized form factor and an electronic display that reportedly looks and reads like real paper, might project an aura [...]

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Many, many years ago, when the digital-music business consisted of little else besides Napster and the Recording Industry Association of America’s lawsuits against it, Apple proved that there was indeed a decent business to be had in selling music online for $1 per song. With iTunes, it quickly established a market for paid downloads as [...]

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The per-device royalties Universal Music Group receives for every Zune player sold were apparently substantial enough to buy CEO Doug Morris a bigger set of balls, because he’s out drumming up support for an industry-owned subscription service with which he hopes to loosen Apple’s grip on the digital music market.

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No wonder expectations for Microsoft’s Zune run so low–the company encourages them. Touting the newest iteration of Microsoft’s digital music player in an interview yesterday with the New York Times, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates (pictured above, right, with J Allard, VP of design and development for Microsoft’s entertainment division) described its predecessor as half-assed. “For [...]

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