Sales guy at Best Buy: “iPod started it all but Zune is better now, they have downloadable tv shows”

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I was at Best Buy (in Fargo) earlier today looking for a Nintendo DS charger because I can’t seem to be able to hold onto one very long. Of course they only had car chargers (which is how I happened to charge my DS today) so no luck there (or at either Target in town, why is it so hard to find a charger?). Since I was there and am still debating about if I should buy an iPod Touch next month or go for a Kindle I thought I’d look at the Touch again since the last time I was there it wasn’t working.

Playing with the Touch I could see that it wouldn’t be too horrible to read on, but it wouldn’t be ideal either. Horizontal would seem to be the preferred way and there would be a lot of finger scrolling. Maybe I can borrow my friends Touch and try it for a night.

But something funny happened while I was checking out the Touch. There was a young guy, probably in his mid-20’s, looking to buy a mp3 player. He had a friendly blue shirted employee helping him and they must have just finished talking about iPods because he was saying something about not knowing if he wanted a hard drive based one because he “runs sometimes”.

At that point I had loaded up my site on the Touch and was scrolling through a longer story to see how reading might be when I heard the sometimes runner ask “what about the Zune?”.

“Oh, the Zune is probably the best right now. Apple really started things out and innovated with the iPod but now the Zune is really the best. They just added being able to watch tv shows too, you can download and watch them. I don’t know if you have to pay for them.” I really wanted to say something but bit my lip. The sad thing is a mom and her two young kids that were looking at iPod Nano’s next to me suddenly said “Oh, he just said the Zunes are better and they moved to the other side of the display to check out the Zunes.

Apple has sold over 150 million iPods since their launch in October of 2001. Microsoft just hit 2 million Zunes in 2 years. NBC ditched selling via iTunes and is just now inking a deal with Microsoft to get their shows on the Zune.

Does any of this make sense?