engadget.com — Bill Gates, who recently praised Apple's iPod, calling it "phenomenal, unbelievable, fantastic" in front of an audience at Stanford University. According to Gates, the plan with Zune is "more modest" than total domination of the portable media player market.
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pixelguruNov 19, 2006
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fragileabsoluteNov 19, 2006
All right I'm confused. Why was pensivewombat dugg down. Yeah the limitations suck, but (with the RIAA being positively horny over court battles) why would Microsoft built a file sharing peripheral. come on. It actually could be cool. By the way I'm fine with being dugg down, but could I know why s/he is.
rickcarsonNov 19, 2006
Translation:Microsoft is going to completely dominate this market. This is Bill lubing up.When Microsoft has nothing, they talk trash about how great their product is going to be and how it has a shopping list of features a half mile long. When they do that, you know it's Vapourware.When Microsoft downplays its own hand, you know they are holding Aces.Same thing that happened with OS/2 (they stole the tech and used it in '95) and the old Apple (back when Apple dominated the market and MS 'borrowed' their UI* and put together Windows).Could be anything. They could be preparing a 'service pack' for Vista and/or XP that will screw up iPods. They could have done a dirty deal with the Music/Movie industries (Bill is amazing at this, whatever you think of the products, he knows how to put together a deal where the other blokes think they've picked his pocket and stolen his watch only to discover that in the fine print they signed over their job, house, wife and dog (and they don't even have a dog)). Maybe they will lean on computer manufacturers so that they won't be able to sell Windows without bundling Zunes (that'd sort out the market share problem pretty quickly).I certainly wouldn't be surprised to see some kind of Zune/360 bundling deal.
ka0ticNov 19, 2006
Its the first week. Relax and give the Zune some time.
halleyscometNov 19, 2006
@flag564Yeah, Gates praising an Apple product really will throw the Microsoft fan boys into a tizzy.Apple fan boys however will either gloat a bit or say "Duh" and move on.So, how's your Microsoft stock doing flag564? It's unusual to see one of your posts with a positive digg rating.
cthellisNov 20, 2006
More like a black pot calling a black kettle black while falling into a black hole of blackness....or something like that.
oinker262Oct 13, 2007
that's why apple isn't competing with that sort of thing.i may be pointing out the obvious, but hey, you can't deny it :]