Microsoft’s zany, sweaty, never-boring CEO Steve Ballmer says in an interview that Apple’s upcoming iPhone will be “the most expensive phone in the world”, and that Zune captured 20-25% of the higher end MP3 player market. Huh?

Just 30 seconds of searching in Froogle reveals many phones over $600, for instance this Samsung I830 Smartphone for $899.95.

As for the Zune sales claim, it’s a wacky number from a wacky guy.

As a hard drive based player, Microsoft has already limited itself to 20 percent of the overall digital music player market. Eight of the top ten players were Apple models, with the remaining two belonging to SanDisk.

However, within the HDD player segment, Redmond is actually performing quite well, with about one out of every eight players being a Zune, or 12 percent.

via BetaNews

[youtube]C5oGaZIKYvo[/youtube]