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- gagravaar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Well written article, but just the same tired old anti-Apple arguements as usual.
"Don't buy (Mac/iTV/iPod/xServe) from Apple, because although they are successful right now, sooner or later Microsoft will get it right and dominate the entire market. So you may as well give up and buy Microsoft."
I'm still waiting for Microsoft to get it right with Windows 3.1/95/98/Me/NT/2000//XP/Vista.
Everybody complains about Apple dominating with the iPod & iTS juggernaut, and they are right, it's not good if one company dominates an entire segment of the market. Fair competition is good.
However, they are quite happy for Microsoft to come along with a competing product and dominate the same market, with I might add, far more draconian DRM than Apple.
If Microsoft is successful, and Windows DRM dominates everything, it will change the face of media forever - for the worse.
The author states that the iPod dominates - for now, and the Zune will change this.
Well the reverse is also true - if the Zune wins, then it's only temporary - the iPod (or another, better product) will come along to topple it.
Or will it? In Apple's case, they do not have a OS monopoly to leverage, so the iPod wins fairly, because it's a good product, with fair DRM. There is nothing, NOTHING, to stop another company to come along and better the iPod.
In Microsoft's case, they do have an OS monopoly to leverage. They can release an inferior product (with inferior DRM), and push it onto a market that they control, and nobody can stop them - that is something we should all be worried about. - netburnr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Explain to me how MS loosing money on every device is going to bring them ahead of the game?
Apple makes profit on the iPod and hardly makes even on iTunes. MS looses money on their players, and I'm gonna go on a limb...isn't going to make much money using thier subscription system.
My opinion...MS is going to really loose out in this attempt to take over the legal music biz. - Odiwan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1To sum up the true meaning of this article, I quote this best phrase of the article: "The Zune isn't just a solitary music player. Think of it as a portable, wireless, hardware version of MySpace."
- moviefreakusa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The article doesn't say Zune will help Microsoft, only that it will hurt Apple.
- lesskiller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"At least in the initial release, Zune's Wi-Fi won't connect to a network. It's peer-to-peer only."
Didn't they say that about the PSP before it came out? Hackers start your engines... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2So many bogus assumptions. And many of them are just as wrong as the stupid assumptions made about the iPod's success.
First of all, the one about the significance of the OS. Who gives a *****? iTunes runs on Windows, and it's free. No one cares about OSs anymore, period. If people can surf the Web and listen to music, they're happy. That's why Microsoft is stagnant and Apple hasn't been able to translate that stagnation into massive market-share gains. And it's what Google has based its entire ascendancy on.
Second, this "seamless sharing" blather. WTF? By all indications, "sharing" is going to be crippled with a bunch of ***** DRM hassles.
And the "integrated music store" rhetoric is so overblown, in the case of both the iPod and anything else. Why the hell should I need special software to go buy a song off the Web? If you want to integrate song-purchasing with a music-player app then fine, but you should damn well be able to simply launch your browser, go to the music-store Web site, and buy a song right there, downloaded to your desktop. And drag-&-drop it onto your device when you feel like it.
Plus, people with 5000 songs on their iPods DID NOT BUY THEM from iTunes. Duh. Seriously, does anyone you know have more than a few iTunes purchases on his iPod? And if so, why didn't you stop him?
The failure of the competition came in the form of gross incompetence, mostly by Creative. The iPod is not "great design"; it's merely the obvious design (with the possible exception of the click-wheel). And iTunes is crap, with basic functionality inferior to that of freeware alternatives. But it's a big lead, at this point. A $250 device is not going to do it as competition, folks. They need to be taking the loss and shipping this thing out at $100.
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