{"id":9205,"date":"2006-09-20T18:19:07","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T18:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9205"},"modified":"2006-09-20T18:19:07","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T18:19:07","slug":"zune-to-be-priced-under-ipod-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9205","title":{"rendered":"Zune to Be Priced UNDER iPod Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Microsloth inside sources, Redmond has decided to drop the anticipated price of the Zune digital media player to US$230. As you may have already heard, MS was shocked by the recent news from Apple that the new 30GB iPod would be priced at $249. They had plans to roll out the Zune at $290, thinking that would be ten bucks below Apple&#8217;s comparable player. Surprise!<\/p>\n<p> So MS will now have to take an even bigger up-front hit to stay on target as being the iPod killer (or so they dream). Gizmodo <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/portable-media\/zunes-final-price-22999-msrp-202066.php\" target=\"new\">surmises<\/a> they&#8217;ll likely try to minimized the pricing blow by ditching pre-loads we wouldn&#8217;t have given a crap about anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Microsloth inside sources, Redmond has decided to drop the anticipated price of the Zune digital media player to US$230. As you may have already heard, MS was shocked by the recent news from Apple that the new 30GB iPod would be priced at $249. They had plans to roll out the Zune at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9205\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zune to Be Priced UNDER iPod Now&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}