Can Zune kill the iPod? [modified]
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RoswellNX wrote:
Apple is about choice
Now *THAT* is funny. Apple is about choice: You can only run their OS on their hardware. You can only buy music from their store, using their software. you can only play their music on their software or their hardware. You can only burn CDs of music from their store using their software. Yeah, that's choice. Can't say much about Zune, not enough info available, but other MS encrypted music offerings and device offerings are: You can pick any service except iTunes. You can pick any device that supports WMA with DRM. There are a variety of software products available to play those protected WMA tracks and burn those tracks to CD. Some services offer a "you don't have to buy the content if you don't want to burn it, you can rent it instead, so that you always have the latest available music tracks. Although you can buy tracks for the same price or less as you would pay at iTunes." Yeah, choice. In this particular case, it's Microsoft that made choice a possibility, not Apple.
Mike Poz
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Can Zune kill the iPod?[^] Whoever is in charge of naming Microsoft products needs to get their 3rd Formal Letter of Warning and then be sacked.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Much like the PC/Windows beat the snot out of the then superior Apple Computer Zune will wipe the floor with iPod. It's about two things for the consumer, content(availability) and price. For another perfect example: BetaMax and VHS. The moment all of the content providers (Hollywood) embraced VHS BetaMax was dead
"I'm happier than a tornado in a trailer park"--Cars
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i'm still waiting for the so-called 'crackberry' killer. I think its going on 2-3 years now
WinTune? WinMusic? WinPlayer? WinStream? Oh, here's a good one, WinPod... Whatever happened to the win moniker...? Can it kill the iPod? Where does a 50,000,000,000 pound gorilla sleep? In Redmond, WA.
Regards, John McPherson "Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clark, inventor of the telecommunications satellite