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Simply that there is way more at stake, and Microsoft won't give up as easily.

Zune was a media player, the market for which is being destroyed by smartphones (why carry around two devices?). So merging Zune into Phone makes sense- I just wish they'd stuck with the Zune name, in all honesty. But there's probably a corporate angle to why they didn't.




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