But AA batteries and shower radios, you have been owned by Zune. Read on:

The great expedition

Good morning, chaps, and may I express how excited about today's music player safari I am. We'll be heading out to spot the most elusive music player of them all: the recently-reported – but possibly mythical – Zune. Have you got your binoculars and canteens? Compasses? All right, then, let's – say, Whittleby, isn't that my pith helmet? You've left yours over there. Do hurry up, please. We've got to make good time!

The mighty Amazon.com jungle is our destination today. One of its more exciting regions: the music player best-seller list. Come along, chaps, through this entrance, there you go... Oh my, the iPods are thick here. I expected many, but there's nothing but iPods at the top. Jeffries, help me push them back so we can get through. There...there's a good man, you've found the trail. Oh, and look! A mating pair of SanDisks, nesting low on the top ten. Good show!
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There's no Thanksgiving in Redmond this year. Unless a new crop of scathing reviews is something to be thankful for (and to be honest, one has to wonder whether that's Microsoft's inexplicable actual wish).

But a lack of Thanksgiving doesn't mean Microsoft hasn't gone and prepared a big brown turkey. Roughly 10 days after the Zune's stillborn arrival, some big-name publications provide the latest report from "the social". Preach it, brethren:
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More fun items:

Searchers find man by his iPod’s glow

iPod helps rescuers locate lost hiker. If they'd found him by a Zune's glow, would they have tossed him back?
http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2006/11/18/news/community/2loc09_ip...