iPod vs. Zune? If You Have a Teenager, Don’t Bother to Ask – 100% Want an iPod

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1st generation Zune (left), 1st generation iPod nano (middle), 4th generation iPod nano (right)

If you have a teenager, don’t bother to ask if he or she would prefer an iPod or a Zune. According to CNET’s summary of a Piper Jaffray survey…

Teen survey makes Microsoft’s Zune seem futile

The percentage of teens who want a zune as of the most recent survey is 100%. This is all the more surprising since their Fall 2008 survey showed that 15% planned to buy a Zune while 79% wanted an iPod (3% were looking at Sony’s offering).

I know I performed this survey on a very very small scale (my teenager) a few years ago (when she wasn’t a teenager to be honest). I asked her if she would like a Zune I had received as a gift since it can playback video and has an FM radio. She was using a 1st generation iPod nano at the time which did not have either feature. She looked at the Zune and said she would rather keep using her 1st generation nano. I later bought her an iPod touch. But, she preferred the nano even then, BTW. Last year, I replaced her 1st generation nano with a 4th generation model. She’s very happy with that now (still doesn’t use the iPod touch much).

2 thoughts on “iPod vs. Zune? If You Have a Teenager, Don’t Bother to Ask – 100% Want an iPod

  1. todd Post author

    Stevie: You and your friends are pretty rare as Zune users. I’ve never seen a Zune “in the wild” except when visiting Microsoft’s campus (and that is not exactly “in the wild”). That said, the Zune has sold a couple of million units (I have a 1st generation 30GB model myself). So, people must be using them somewhere. What is it about the Zune do you like? What makes you prefer it over an iPod?

  2. Stevie

    That’s a bunch of crap. I’m a teenager and I freaking hate I-pods with a passion so who are they asking? Obviously not me or anyone else I know because everyone I know either has a zune and loves them or has and I-pod and has problems with it.

    100%? That’s a slight exageration.

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