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iPods @ Microsoft
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:26 pm
by Fender
Kinda humorous story about how popular iPods are @ MS and how it is becoming politically incorrect to own one.
http://wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,66460, ... _tophead_2
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:38 pm
by Pext
yeah... read it a while ago on spiegel.de
- actually it's understandable out of microsofts perspective. but i dont see why they are actually trying to establish their own music codec; mp3 seems to be fine and as it's a common standard, why change?
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 2:17 pm
by dmmh
the same reason apple uses their format
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:06 pm
by Tormentius
I don't care if they're pushing WMV, but MS needs to step up with a competitive product. They're missing a golden opportunity to step into another market.
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:10 pm
by plained
its crazy people just want to go down in quality with tunes .
compression that is.
i'd would be a little better if they were ripped from 24 bit 192 khz tho
more is more
less is less
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:40 pm
by inphlict
Microsoft already has plans to introduce something like the ipod in the upcoming 2 years.
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:21 pm
by Tormentius
inphlict wrote:Microsoft already has plans to introduce something like the ipod in the upcoming 2 years.
And it'll probably own, but two years is a long time. I preordered an iPod shuffle today because I'm sick of waiting.
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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 8:11 pm
by prince1000
Tormentius wrote:I don't care if they're pushing WMV, but MS needs to step up with a competitive product. They're missing a golden opportunity to step into another market.
don't you mean step on?
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:51 pm
by Tormentius
prince1000 wrote:Tormentius wrote:I don't care if they're pushing WMV, but MS needs to step up with a competitive product. They're missing a golden opportunity to step into another market.
don't you mean step on?
Meh, they usually improve on a product at the same time but you're right. Evil empires make for networks that are more enjoyable to administer though so I'm all for 'em.
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:59 pm
by phantasmagoria
If MS got in on it, it would make ipods/other mp3 players cheaper, especially if MS did a good job. Bring it on
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:47 am
by 7zark7
Tormentius wrote:inphlict wrote:Microsoft already has plans to introduce something like the ipod in the upcoming 2 years.
And it'll probably own, but two years is a long time. I preordered an iPod shuffle today because I'm sick of waiting.
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LOL!
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Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 4:03 am
by Tormentius
7zark7 wrote:
LOL!
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It will do the trick. Probably a few hours a day listening time and the lack of LCD or options don't matter to me. Hell, at home on my PC I just kick up a genre-based playlist and let it run on shuffle without checking the artist 