[2Jim_Brown]

There si competition for Apple Computer by Microsoft.

[SlowBoat407]

This is going to be interesting.

[mosquitobite]

My husband bought me the Samsung MP3 for Christmas.

[tubebender]

iPod iPing...

[Huck]

I don't get the whole Ipod craze. Isn't it basically an mp3 player? Similarly, I don't get the podcast craze. Isn't just a streamed mp3? I play mp3s on my cd player, and I stream music by friggin clicking on it. What's the difference? Where's the beef?

[Panerai]

Yeah, must be just a mirrage that 95% of the people that I see everyday on the subway and on the street, wear ipods.

[Revolting cat!]

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer, speaking at last week's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, summed up Redmond's strategic vision succinctly: "People will over time carry one portable device."

You betcha! And on their feet, too!

[Izzy Dunne]

Ah, yes, the next "iPod Killer".

[narby]

But Apple isn't just going to let itself fail like it did over a decade ago with the ill-fated Newton; the company recently announced on its Web site that it is making first-run TV shows, like the "Tonight Show" and "The Office," available for download, at $1.99, the day after they air on TV.

Pay per view Tonight Show? I don't think so.

I've already got a TiVo if I really needed to watch Leno the day after.

[Revolting cat!]

"People will over time carry one portable device."

... and 10,000 pairs of shoes.

[mpop]

I would say Apple is almost set, why do I say this, I have seen more and more devices that have a connector for the iPod, that connects to the iPod's dock connector. Unless other mp3 players get this same connector that controls it. Some cars now even have iPod connectors. I have a AM/FM radio that has a iPod dock connector (the iHome)

[Revolting cat!]

Nobody needs a iPod. Everybody needs shoes!

[Dr.Zoidberg]

I'll wait until they perfect the MP3 player neuro-implant.

Who wants to carry something that can be lost or stolen when you can download the music directly into your own cerebral audio storage and replay device?

As long as an independent group of hackers confirms there's no tracking component included, I'm ready to become a rocking cyborg. Besides, with my taste in music, it's better if no one around can hear it.

[Revolting cat!]

Revolutionary products of the future!

[ccmay]

I have Verizon for one reason only-- they have the only reception where I live. I absolutely hate the money-grubbing pirates.

They took what should have been a decent phone-- the Motorola v710 -- and crippled it so you could only buy music, ring tones, etc. from Verizon and could only get photos off your phone by attaching them to a text message. They have crippled every decent phone they have offered as part of some @$$hole marketing major's vision of how to squeeze the last penny out of their subscribers. They are one of the most evil companies in the country.

I abuse their reps every time I interact with them, and tell them I can't wait to get rid of their $#!tty overpriced crippled phones. The minute, nay, the very second, I can get a dial tone at my house with any other company, they have lost me as a client forever.

To think that I might buy music from them and from Mr. Blue Screen of Death is positively comical. I would quit listening to music altogether before buying anything from the scum.

-ccm