One of, what appears to be an Uncle Walt Protege, posted a laughable post on All Things Digital. The dudes name is John Psomething. He posted the following today...

A “regularly scheduled maintenance” outage will take Microsoft’s Zune platform offline for up to 48 hours beginning today. So if you’re among the five Zune owners who comprise the “Social” and you’ve actually noticed that it’s suddenly gone missing–along with Zune Marketplace and the Zune Net forums–and you’re bothered by their absence, this is why. Microsoft (MSFT) offered no explanation for the outage, just a brief apology: “We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause you. Please check back soon. We look forward to sharing our picks, plays and recommendations with you.”

So, what I want to know is why anyone would make a post on a heavily read blog like the iWall Street Journal that only addresses "5 Known Users". Is this post playing up to the iAudience that this blog might cater to? (I don't read the site, so I don't know what they cater too, I am just making assumptions. Wrong or right, I don't care) I have the right to exercise fanboyism here, it's a Zune site after all. Is All Things Digital an Anti-Zune site?

So we have 5 Zune Users. So let's do some math eh? The same jackass, posted this in an earlier bash of the Zune...

Great, but will that make a difference, with the Zune market share hovering at 4 percent (compared to Apple at 71 percent)?

OK, so Apple's 71% Market share quite impressive I admit. I do also realize that the iPod has been on the market for how many years? It was the only "real" digital media player for how long? Zune has been in the game for almost 2 years, fighting an uphill battle too.

Anyhow, if 4% of the market share = 5 Zune Users, then there are only 88 Apple Media Player users. What Media Player do the other 31 people use?

Wait, so my daughter, coworker, and I only have 2 other Zune owners to squirt songs to?