can I go click on the home stereo too?
if so I love it
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can I go click on the home stereo too?
if so I love it
Hmmmm,
Kit is kit, no matter what..................there is cheaper and there is better. I can distinctly remember the Sony Walkman, it was all the rage back then, until everyone and their aunt started making them.
Nobody seems to have taken a lead in portable CD players so this iPod stuff is the latest craze.
If Microsoft get some Chinese outfit to badge half decent kit, the battle will be in supplying the music. MS could easily afford to undersell Apple by half price and "squeeze them until the pips squeak"
I wonder what Steve Ballmer has in mind?......................
Answers on the back of a postage stamp :cool: :eek:
Also remember that the best technology does not always win. I remember our "video wars" and our "satellite wars" ................... in both cases the technologically inferior solution prevailed.
Not sure of any home stereos with it integrated yet. I am sure there is one on the planet somewhere though. It has to be integrated, otherwise you have to buy and adapter for about 30 bucks.Quote:
can I go click on the home stereo too?
if so I love it
I'm not going to read the rest of the thread... I'm just being lazy. However, I wouldn't mind if my music player had bluetooth. I'd like to see bluetooth headphones similar to the ones that cell phone use. I don't care for the wires on headphones as they tend to get in my way. Make it a rechargable headset and thats even better.Quote:
Why would an MP3 Player with bluetooth capabilities be a damn good thing? First off... there's no mention of it using bluetooth and given the limited range of bluetooth, I highly doubt that's the wireless that they're talking about. I wouldn't want an MP3 Player with bluetooth... With things like Drive-By Spam and Drive-By Viruses available, the last thing I want is devices with bluetooth...
[offtopic sort of rant]
I don't see myself taking advantage of the wireless purchase feature... I don't purchase music over the net. I prefer using bittorrent. If the MPAA wants to treat me like a their... I'm going to act like one. (DRM on digital files, endless restrictions and not to mention rootkits on cds you buy in the stores.) [/offtopic sort of rant]
//at a tangent,
If you look at IT financials (as I do :cool: ) you will have seen an upsurge in Apple's fortunes since the introduction of the iPod?
Microsoft can afford market analysts "almost as good as myself" :p so you can bet that they have seen the exact same. ;)
However, Apple are way down the road in being established in that market, so it is going to be difficult to go into it against them. Microsoft will come in with their entry level offering, and Apple will simply go one better.
On the other side of the coin, there have been plenty of rumours about Apple going into the games console market, or even combining the iPod and a gaming console feature? Play a video then play a game?
Western IT hardware is not an area I would favour as a long term stock investment, as I consider China to be a major threat as soon as they start putting their own badges on stuff.
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