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Microsoft Corp. is developing a music and video device to compete with Apple's iPod and creating its own music service to rival Apple's iTunes, sources familiar with the plans said on Friday.
Microsoft Preparing Rival to Apple's iPod?
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It'd be a cold day in hell before I'd buy a microsoft music player...
I also don't think MS would have any genuine advantage with the general populace in this market segment; MS doesn't have any presence in consumer electronics apart from xbox, mice and maybe an odd keyboard here or there and that's hardly the same thing as a music player.
Bill won't win on walkover just because MS is MS. Apple will prevail I say.
I also don't think MS would have any genuine advantage with the general populace in this market segment; MS doesn't have any presence in consumer electronics apart from xbox, mice and maybe an odd keyboard here or there and that's hardly the same thing as a music player.
Bill won't win on walkover just because MS is MS. Apple will prevail I say.
Price.
If MS makes it as simple and elegent (the only selling points of the iPod besides the crap that is iTunes (IMO!!!!!!!!)) and offers it at what it should be selling for or lower then MS could have a real winner.
Of course, I think there are tons of DAPs better than the iPod right now that just dont sell so well, so what do I know.
If MS makes it as simple and elegent (the only selling points of the iPod besides the crap that is iTunes (IMO!!!!!!!!)) and offers it at what it should be selling for or lower then MS could have a real winner.
Of course, I think there are tons of DAPs better than the iPod right now that just dont sell so well, so what do I know.
Skrying said:
I think you answered your own question.
iTunes may not be the best thing since sliced bread, but to the "which way up in the CD tray do I put a CD" crowd it's fifteen orders of magnitude better than the competition.
iTunes makes acquiring, organising and using music so much easier than anything that MS can even begin to comprehend it's just not even funny. It's a mindset which is completely left-field to MS.
Hey I'm not a big fan of Apple here (frankly their stuff is over-priced and over-goshbycrickeyApplearegoodarentthey-boyed) but it really does work and it really is easy to use. MS don't, can't and won't ever grasp the concept of ease-of-use (I mean real ease-of-use) because they're obsessed with pushing Windows as a platform.
L233 said:
I'm sure it'd be able to use lots of things. How do you feel about the formats that you're forced onto when using iTunes?
I frankly stick to Cowon products right now, they offer great products that fuse good battery life and features. Plus they support FLAC.
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DRM is evil, and microsoft something we all don't really like (though, I like windows once you remove all the terrible bloat crap).
but, the MS music system is : multiple hardware vendors, multiple stores. that's less monopolistic than Apple, for sure.
As for people being to dumb to use a non Apple product.. Ipods sell like cakes, sure, but so do noname MP3 USB keys. people ARE able to use a non Apple proprietary piece of crap, and ARE able to drag'n'drop MP3 files to USB mass storage.
why couldn't they use WMP11. I didn't try it, but screenshots and comments only tell MS is doing well.
but, the MS music system is : multiple hardware vendors, multiple stores. that's less monopolistic than Apple, for sure.
As for people being to dumb to use a non Apple product.. Ipods sell like cakes, sure, but so do noname MP3 USB keys. people ARE able to use a non Apple proprietary piece of crap, and ARE able to drag'n'drop MP3 files to USB mass storage.
why couldn't they use WMP11. I didn't try it, but screenshots and comments only tell MS is doing well.
What is Microsoft's core business? Is it OSes, development plattforms, office applications, server products, portable devices, or gaming consoles? Ever since Gates stepped down from CEO, MS has been a disaster. Microsoft said it was going to conquer all of these markets like it did with web browsers and operating systems. It hasn't done any of that since Ballmer's been in charge.
Guden Oden said:
I never really get statements like this, it just makes you appear foolish!
Whilst I loathe itunes, I love my ipod. Its just so simple and easy to use. I have the 30gb video and dont see myself departing with it for a long time.
But should microsoft actually try to dominate over Apple, more competition is most welcome. I dont see anyone else trying to do it.... Creative, heh please tell me another joke!
There are rumours that Apple will one day launch a video ipod with the screen being the full length of the player and a touch pad device. Now, if Microsoft were able to say make a similar device to -
- be a pda
- offer the same simplistic control as the ipod player
- gaming device (to play xbox games)
- phone via bluetooth
Surely, they would have the best thing since slice bread?
Oh and haha, im dreaming now, but if they included a camera, I would be in geek heaven!
demonic said:Oh and haha, im dreaming now, but if they included a camera, I would be in geek heaven!
Why not just buy one of the current multimedia phones then? All the stuff you wish besides XBox games...
Seriously, I'll never use WMA, I'll never do ANYTHING online with MS except for windows registration, I'll never buy any music from MS and definitely no player.
Apple has a thing or two up their sleeve. The next reported video iPod is supposed to run a variant of OS X and contain Wifi, that's right, it will be akin to something like an Origami device or OQO/Ultraportable.
Can't wait for WWDC. Rumors surrounding Leopard abound and could make Vista seem like a joke. In particular, if Base Camp is the ruse that people think, and Leopard will contain virtualization, then my last hurdle for keeping a PC around will be broken.
Can't wait for WWDC. Rumors surrounding Leopard abound and could make Vista seem like a joke. In particular, if Base Camp is the ruse that people think, and Leopard will contain virtualization, then my last hurdle for keeping a PC around will be broken.
I wonder if MS can stop that. We dont know what MS required NV/ATI to insert in directx10 hardware. They could very well have required some level of OS authentication. Would either of them not comply and let their competition get all the juicy bits from MS?DemoCoder said:
epic
ps that and EFI, Im just really curious on what MS might have up their sleeves. Im sure they have had to have known about Apple's probable move to the "PC" eventually.
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