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Gates: We will challenge iPod
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| February 11, 2006
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Posted on 02/13/2006 7:08:46 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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M$ is good at marketing, perhaps it can offer a challenge to iPod Nation.
To: martin_fierro; SamAdams76
To: stainlessbanner
Sure it'll make a version which forces users to convert to a proprietary codec that they insist is open, and which will send data on all their listening habits to Redmond, further it will support a single button for simplicity; depending how fast or slow or how many times you press the single button it will do different things but none of them will be visually verified, and you'll have to open the documentation on the cd rom to know how many times/speed for which functions. The product will be announced shortly to great fanfare and ship 2.5 years from now, a year and a half latter than announced, though you'll be able to pre-order immeadiatly.
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:13:20 AM PST
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x5452
To: x5452
it'll make a version which forces users to convert to a proprietary codec that they insist is open, and which will send data on all their listening habits to Redmond
Just like the iPod, eh?
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:15:28 AM PST
by
dyed_in_the_wool
("O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends" - Koran 5.51)
To: stainlessbanner
Gates: We will challenge iPodIn the immortal words of Tuco (from The Good, The Bad, and tThe Ugly):
"If you're going to shoot somebody, Shoot! Don't talk!"
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:16:26 AM PST
by
Cincinatus
(Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
To: dyed_in_the_wool
The iPod doesn't send anything about your listening habits. iTunes (computer software which works with the iPod) CAN but you can also turn it off, in fact it's off by default now.
I leave it on, I'd be all to happy if it would make suggestions based on my listening habits (which are mostly Russian pop and occasional jpop).
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:17:40 AM PST
by
x5452
To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Bush2000; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; ...
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:18:29 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: stainlessbanner
Ipod and Apple will be subject to one of the biggest class action suits in history as tens of thousands suffer permanent hearing loss.
Microsoft should market their version as a safe Ipod.
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:19:28 AM PST
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
To: x5452
You forgot - and we will make it so open that we will accept all viruses, spyware and trojan horses that will destroy the OS and slow down the play ...
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:19:34 AM PST
by
cinives
(On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
To: finnman69
Ipod and Apple will be subject to one of the biggest class action suits in history as tens of thousands suffer permanent hearing loss.The really cool thing about FreeRepublic is that idiots can say anything that pops into their heads. It makes for great comedy.
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:23:03 AM PST
by
Glenn
(There is a looming Tupperware shortage. Plan appropriately.)
To: cinives
Hey you're right I did forget that!
(Does the xbox sport viruses/viri as yet?)
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:23:29 AM PST
by
x5452
To: stainlessbanner
"Between us and our partners, you can expect some pretty hot products coming out over the next few years."*Yawn*.
I don't see Microsoft building a better mousetrap here. They don't specialize in either sound quality, or simplistic user GI's, issues that make the iPod enormously successful. And iTunes has a giant head start.
Good luck, Bill.
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:24:59 AM PST
by
xsrdx
(Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
To: stainlessbanner
Announcing the new Wpod!
-plays only DRM encrypted WMA files
-requires you to re-license your tracks daily
-has only 3 simple controls; CTRL ALT DEL -featuring new random "blue screen" lcd display -your 25-digit product key; don't leave home without it
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:26:50 AM PST
by
Sender
(As water has no constant form, there are in war no constant conditions. Be without form. -Sun Tzu)
To: stainlessbanner
Microsoft needs to wake up and compete....two words: I-Pod & Blackberry.
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:29:20 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: x5452
And further, the iPod is botique. Nobody does Botique better than Apple.
MS might rule the world, but they almost define "mundane".
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:29:21 AM PST
by
xsrdx
(Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
To: dyed_in_the_wool
The iPod can use MP3 which is not an apple proprietary codec
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:29:21 AM PST
by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
To: Glenn
Not too idiotic. Someone is already trying to sue Apple based on IPod hearing loss.
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:30:32 AM PST
by
LexBaird
("I'm not questioning your patriotism, I'm answering your treason."--JennysCool)
To: finnman69
I called my daughter the other day on her cell phone. She had it beside her while she was doing homework on the computer and was listening to her iPod nano. The phone was in vibrate mode. It apparently caused the iPod to incrementalize the volume and she had to throw off the ear phones because of the intense pain. The phone and the nano were right next to each other on the desk.
There will be hearing damage as it has already been determined. In grade school and in college nearly every weekend there would be a dance or coffee house with live bands playing R&R or R&B. It often was loud but according to my wife, the sound pressures generated by the ear bud type ear phones can be much higher.
Fortunately for both Apple and MS, because there are so many MP3 manufacturers and because the cause of the damage is well known, I don't think they should be targets of tort law suits.
To: All
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:31:47 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: xsrdx
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:32:07 AM PST
by
xsrdx
(Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
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