This is quite an old article and many of the issues Microsoft were supposed to face with the zune in 2007 never did happen..
Reading through it i don't, however, agree with the authors statement about zune 80s being unavailable.
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Unavailability: Microsoft is trying to play up the idea that its new 80 GB Zune has sold out due to popularity. In reality however, few stores even received any of those models. Scarcity is only a good sign if you are making units as fast as you can, as Nintendo is doing with the popular Wii games console.
However, even for Nintendo there is a real risk that product unavailability will drive potential buyers to other products. Apple faced similar problems in the mid 90s, when it simply couldn’t produce enough PowerBooks to meet demand, while it sat on warehouses of Performa models nobody wanted.
For Microsoft, an inability to deliver the new Zune model is similarly only bad news, not something to brag about. That hasn’t stopped the company from widely seeding the story that the Zune 80 can’t be found in stores because is wildly popular, rather than because Microsoft can’t deliver any in volume.
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He compares the "limited quantity's" of the zune to that of the Wii.. is this guy nuts? Zune 80s were widely available about a month or two after release.. and here Nintendo is supposedly "producing units as fast as possible" nearly two YEARS after release and they are still almost impossible to get, not to mention some of the more popular games like Mario kart or Wii fit. The real truth is the Wii is the easiest and cheapest console to make.. Nintendo is simply keeping the supply low to keep the demand high.. And that is one thing Microsoft is or even was not doing. (grammar on the last sentence?)