[fnimick]

Oh hey, this is me, when it comes to products. I am almost certainly of the "harbinger of failure" group where if I like your product, it's going to be a disaster. https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/12/certain-customers-sp...

Not only did I buy a Zune, I was an early enthusiastic customer of their streaming subscription service and thought that it would topple the iTunes sales model. We all know how well that went.

[booleandilemma]

Except Zune wasn't a bad product. I liked it. It had a radio and was easy to develop apps for.

[datavirtue]

Doomed to failure. How come none of Microsoft's bad products ever die? RIP Windows Phone.

[datavirtue]

Same here. "Split brain," logical, analytical person. We aren't even a rounding error in market numbers. If I like it it is probably the superior product providing the most value...rarely ever matters.

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Also: subscription streaming did topple the iTunes sales model. It just wasn't Microsoft that made it work in the marketplace.