I agree it wasn’t a dud, it was just way too late. It was followed far too closely by iPhone / iPod touch. Gates was at the debut of the product though. I had

I agree it wasn’t a dud, it was just way too late. It was followed far too closely by iPhone / iPod touch. Gates was at the debut of the product though. I had an original Zune in Brown and helped organize the first pre-release public zune ~fan demo (that I know of.) It was held at my buddy’s tea shop on green lake.