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- Hanny26, on 10/07/2008, -9/+122Also with the increase of all these Smartphones that can hold increasing amounts of data/music, the standard mp3 player is bound to start fading.
- BigW, on 10/08/2008, -22/+100To bad the only smartphone that is any good playing mp3s is the iphone....
- sockpuppets, on 10/08/2008, -7/+84The iPod touch is not the same iPod. It's already morphed into something else.
- inactive, on 10/07/2008, -3/+75iWatch 2012 1TB HD - music streamed from your watch to your bluetooth earbuds. See who's calling you on your mobile by looking at your watch - voice activated...special feature -someone within a 15metre radius asks the time - the watch will respond.
- inactive, on 10/08/2008, -1/+60But you can't share it, so that's the most proprietary DRM of all. Why do you hate freedom!?
- Duncster, on 10/08/2008, -4/+57i stream music through my brain
=] - hellahyphy, on 10/08/2008, -17/+69The ipod isn't going to die anytime soon.
- micro506, on 10/08/2008, -0/+43As long as it doesn't get snarky and say something like "It's about time you get a watch."
- swatward, on 10/08/2008, -9/+50The radio is going to be put out of business by these cassette tapes and cd's
- scabbers, on 10/08/2008, -3/+41"the fundamentals of our ipod economy are strong"
- theexitwound, on 10/08/2008, -15/+46I love my Zune and everything about it. And with the constant firmware and software upgrades, it's a winner, even for the ancient Zune30. They may not have made an iPod killer, but it holds it ground against the Apple beast pretty well.
- chkdg8, on 10/08/2008, -0/+29I swear, this story is getting blown all out of proportion.
- CalcProgrammer1, on 10/08/2008, -3/+28iPod classic/nano = advanced portable media player
iPod Touch = full-blown PDA disguised as advanced portable media player
iPhone = full-blown PDA, advanced media player, and smartphone
It has morphed. The only problem is that morph was not revolutionary at all, PDA's existed long before Apple even had a color screen on the iPod, and smartphones were out long before the iPhone. - CalcProgrammer1, on 10/08/2008, -1/+24I honestly want to keep the iPod/PDA/MP3 player/big data device separate from the phone. Why? You have to pay expensive contracts to make the phone work. The big problem is phone companies hook you into an expensive contract and then you can't change your plan without having to buy a new phone or pay ridiculous transfer fees and stuff. If you have a PDA (iTouch would count too) and then a basic phone that can serve as a Bluetooth modem, you can change your cheaper phone as much as you want and not have to worry about losing your main device.
I have a Dell Axim X50v (yeah, a 4 year old PDA) and still think it's the best thing out there. It has all my music, a great Web browser (Opera Mobile 9.5), Windows Mobile 6.1, AIM chat, Internet Radio, video player, emulators, YouTube, E-mail, and more. I have a cheap old phone that I barely ever use, I get a TON more use out of my Axim. Since my college campus has WiFi everywhere, I'm still always connected, have FREE Internet, and get everything that a phone would get (except the phone part, but like I said, rarely use that, people use their phones more and more for text chat, which I can use AIM for free and E-mail for free). - mbraynard, on 10/08/2008, -21/+42Ok, hold on. I'm about to give some straight talk here on the subject:
I have used all the music software programs and devices of every kind. As of right now, the Zune3 software and the Zune player wins.
The software is particularly excellent. It just blows everything else away. Why is it relevant to this discussion? Because it FEELs like Apple designed it. iTunes does not.
Anyway, you just gotta check it out. If you have and disagree or agree, reply and let me know your thoughts. - dm33, on 10/08/2008, -2/+23Ok premise until its not. Somehow blaming Apple for lack of innovation is laughable.
Look at the iPod Touch and the iPhone. THAT is real innovation. THAT is the next wave of iPod. Apple IS innovating. The competition is still following and not innovating.
There isn't anything else to be done in a pure music player. been there done that. Best changes are in the music labels DRM restrictions, basically removing them on the iPod and iPhone. Getting around carrier restrictions in the cell phone market.
Bottom line, while everyone agrees that the pure music player device will not be the hot thing forever, Apple is the leader is new innovation in new areas. This article somehow blaming Apple for the industry's lack of innovation is blaming the innovator for lack of innovation. It doesn't make any sense. - Me1000, on 10/08/2008, -0/+18What's a watch?
:) - c010rb1indusa, on 10/07/2008, -7/+23The problem with PMPs is that there isn't to much to expand on. I mean there are only a few forms of media (music,video,photo) so after a while it's hard to ad other features, divx support would be nice though. At least Apple is trying with Genius, touchscreens, etc there isn't to much left to be done. I guess the next step is bluetooth or WiFi syncing, but those technologies aren't practice for PMPs yet, they're way to slow. So although the iPod line seems to get tired after a while there's only so much you can do.
- SoundScape, on 10/08/2008, -2/+16"Granted, the iPod Touch is unique in its own right, but the iPod Nano and Shuffle have been the joke of the iPod world for years now."
Ok, you lost me. You're clearly an idiot Don Reisinger. You've just called two the highest selling MP3 players in the world "the joke of the iPod world". It's you who's the joke. - baldgye, on 10/08/2008, -0/+14a pda?
- tripledjr, on 10/08/2008, -0/+13@Widdigi: But it has a cassette and CD player?
- dhmlco, on 10/08/2008, -0/+12And, to believe Apple's most recent advertising, a portable game player.
- handheldchimp, on 10/08/2008, -0/+12I can't even imagine what would replace it as #1...
- gothicform, on 10/08/2008, -0/+11My phone has a radio... no cassette or cd player though. Pity, I'd like a cassette playing phone.
- soopafly, on 10/08/2008, -0/+11i don't think you know what an iPod Touch is.
- xianpryde, on 10/08/2008, -5/+15Hey people. The iPod is already dead... witness the zombie of the iPod Classic, lurching into the future because it still meets certain needs. Those, like me, who need something on the run, go for the nano. But the new thing is already here: it's called the iPod Touch, it's the same OS as the iPhone, and it's a whole new platform... a whole new experience, really. A *tiny* part of it is that it's an iPod -- and the rest of it is that it's an endlessly expansible internet tablet and mobile computer. The transition already happened Woz... while you weren't looking.
- CalcProgrammer1, on 10/08/2008, -0/+10Exploding batteries? We already have those! Sony invented them a few years ago!
- LoganSerman, on 10/08/2008, -1/+10Yeah, honestly I think the iPod is going to get replaced with things like the iPhone. Apple is a large corporation, they can ride this wave for awhile because they keep up with all of the new technology.
- DarkerMaster, on 10/08/2008, -1/+10LOL
- CSheikh, on 10/08/2008, -1/+10This is a stupid article. The guy is implying that the success of the iPod is preventing anyone else (including Apple) from releasing the next generation of new products. It is a ridiculous inference which at it's basis implies that all these tech companies are sitting back twiddling their thumbs because Apple is currently in control of the market. His logic could be applied to last year's NFL standings in that because the Patriots were doing so well, no one was even trying to beat them. Obviously this guy has never worked in R&D for any technology company.
- inactive, on 10/08/2008, -1/+9My ipod is one with the living dead. It is a mess of black lines and rainbow colors. I can't select my music anymore. However, it still works great as a massive 40GB zip drive. Good for storing movies and files :)
- bradwjensen, on 10/08/2008, -2/+10Hard drive? You mean Flash!! :p
- kp340806, on 10/08/2008, -5/+13100% agree! Zune's software is SO MUCH MORE manageable than freaking iTunes. I am tired of the CONSTANT crashes, the CONSTANT glitches, trying to "refind" my music because iTunes had a schizo attack again and can't locate any of my files...
Zune3 software is multiples better than iTunes. +1 to that whole great post. - Leonffs, on 11/20/2009, -1/+9So you're saying people will start buying more iPhones.
- inactive, on 10/08/2008, -1/+8My Moto Q SUCKS as an MP3 player. First, even with the extended battery, it doesn't last THAT long acting as a phone, PDA, and MP3 player. Second, I have to put a special adapter on it to plug in head phones or get Bluetooth headphones. Third, if I'm emailing, checking RSS feeds, or surfing, my music tends to stutter.
I'll use my crappy Sandisk MP3 player that has a removable AA battery, so it'll last for a 14 hour flight to Sydney, and even if it doesn't I just pop in a new battery. - kday, on 10/08/2008, -4/+11rpgmaker -
I guess we will have to agree to disagree. Is that OK with you? - fattehboi, on 10/08/2008, -0/+6everything else has failed miserably though
- gravityboard, on 10/08/2008, -1/+7That's retarded. It's like saying "how is a learjet different from a hang glider other than being radically more advanced and with plenty more features"?
- BlackJackJester, on 10/08/2008, -3/+9I don't know why people find it necessary to bury this comment. Zune is a good, slick piece of hardware that is just as integrated as the iPod with software, and mp3 store. It even has a subscription service that iTunes doesn't. It isn't as ubiquitous as the iPod, but the Zune software and firmware is solid. I just wish Zune software was more integrated into the windows shell.
- quamb, on 10/08/2008, -1/+7That's hardly the point.
I didn't know anyone who had an mp3 player, or let alone actually see one with my own eyes before the iPod came out.
And until only a few years ago, smartphones = clumsy bricks for white collar types. - Gravey9, on 10/08/2008, -0/+6I'll never buy another creative ever. I used to have a creative mp3 player and it completely died on me one day, just out of nowhere. I only had the thing for 3 months.
- Atsumori, on 10/08/2008, -2/+7I have had both an Ipod and a Zune. I can attest that the Zune is so much more easier and it's balance is so much better. I could never stand to look at the Itunes software, and finding the right feature or changing what needed to be changed took forever. I rarely have to make the sort of changes that I did with the ipod on the zune. Not only that but the zune feels so much more into the music and it's whole system makes sense. Especially the twist menu system and the personalization that one can put into a zune.
- m85476585, on 10/08/2008, -0/+5iRiver had MP3 CD players (remember those!) before iPods were even around. They had the "i" first. I still have my old iMP150, and I remember how great it was. It had all kinds of new features, and it held about 10 times as much on a CD as a regular CD player. There were regular firmware updates that added new features like games and (for more powerful players) new codecs like OGG. They came out with their first flash player about a year after the first iPods, but this was while iPods were still hard drive only. iRiver really declined as iPods became popular, and it's unfortunate because they were a really innovative company way back when.
- whatthefu, on 10/08/2008, -0/+5What happens when you lose it? That's putting all your eggs in one basket.
- JAGUART, on 10/08/2008, -0/+5My god, I dugg you up just for spelling definitely and ridiculous correctly in the same sentence. In my 10+ years on the internet, I don't ever remember seeing that.
- Junior612, on 10/08/2008, -0/+5H340 ftw
I plugged it into my friend's PS2 so it had power and recorded him sleep talking. Yeah, a 5 hour long mp3.
I just wanna know why he kept talking about brussel sprouts - baldgye, on 10/08/2008, -0/+5I dugg that, coz I still use my 5 year old 20gb iriver for recording things, with its built in mic, and optical line in
- inactive, on 10/08/2008, -0/+5Another problem is battery life. Do you really want your multimedia draining your phone's battery and preventing it from performing its primary task?
- gravityboard, on 10/08/2008, -0/+5Stephen Colbert would be proud of that retort.
- gothicform, on 10/08/2008, -1/+6Why do you think Apple released the iPhone! It's obvious that as the storage capability of phones increase and their processing power increases allowing them to have slicker GUIs they will become more and more attractive to people.
Most of us already have a mobile phone, imagine your mobile with say 120gb of storage and a nice GUI and a headphone socket. You will need your iPod why?
I haven't used my mp3 player once since I got my current phone. I don't need to with 8gb of storage, the phone supporting album art, a graphic equaliser, megabass should I choose and a pair of noise reduction headphones plugged in.
That's without counting the other improvements in technology - it'll kill off casual digital cameras too. Once you get optical zoom in more phones, flashes in more phones and all that which person who takes snapshots will need a separate camera?
Like it or not, phones are the future for replacing many average consumer devices. -
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