Are they only going to offer a rental service? That does of course suck. No serious match for Apple's ownership scheme. Side thought: Although, in principle, since Apple can chang…

I'm pretty sure the speculation is that it'll be a pay-based store--otherwise the whole free downloading of purchased iTunes tracks scheme wouldn't make any sense.

The only way that M$ can kill the iPod is if they give the M$ version away for $10 each. Bill Gates is willing to start giving away his fortune earlier that we expected.

So, they seem to now officially ackowledge the service dubbed "Zune". There's even a really cheesy website http://www.comingzune.com I found two reports on the original report (W…

What guarantees that they will have al the songs that iTunes carries in the first place? Certainly there will be certain artists they will either not be able to carry due to contra…

Id like to see the ipod killer have some sort of ipod jamming device built in, kind of like those cell phone jammers you can buy. That way it will be a true killer.

Quote: Originally Posted by hickey Id like to see the ipod killer have some sort of ipod jamming device built in, kind of like those cell phone jammers you can buy. That way it…

That stupid Coming Zune website is the dumbest thing I have ever seen.

It's pretty ridiculous indeed.

Quote: Originally Posted by Simon Side thought: Although, in principle, since Apple can change the DRM terms at any time to whatever they like (like reducing the amount of CD bu…

True, but (at least in theory) there's no guarantee they will always allow you to burn to audio CD at all.

Quote: Originally Posted by Simon iPod remote destruction. Awesome idea! Next time some kid on the subway is blasting off some hip hop on full volume so I have to listen to his…

Ooooo good call

Quote: Originally Posted by Simon True, but (at least in theory) there's no guarantee they will always allow you to burn to audio CD at all. I don't think it will come to t…

Quote: Originally Posted by Simon Unfortunately that sounds like a typical M$ strong-arm approach. And as porieux already indicated, is this entirely legal? Anti-trust? I hope …

Quote: Originally Posted by itguy05 However, just to be safe, I burn them all to an audio CD just in case. Yeah, I'm not as paranoid as it may sound in this thread so i don…

Quote: Originally Posted by Helmling I think Apple's already fighting a technical battle, but against their own standards. The iPod has to be certain things--simple, elegant, c…

Apple's probably gonna release the 6th gen iPod to compete with M$.

This morning I was reading a Seattle Times article about a 'tech analyst' called Enderle who reported on Zune and the iTMS-like service that goes with it. Enderle says: Quote: …

Hopefully this will drive Apple's prices down to compete with Microsoft and its competitors. It might also force them to come out with something like the new touch-screen video ip…

MS knows exactly what it's doing. they know, in the short term, they will not knock the ipod out the box; they say they're in it for the long haul (they keep saying this!); thats t…

I don't think we should be laughing at this at all. MS has had a long time to sit and watch who succeeds and who fails. Granted it's been mostly Apple succeeding and everybody else…

Xbox a success?? By what measure?

Quote: Originally Posted by Ryan1524 They can probably market this along with every single Windows carrying PC sold out there. I don't think they could get away with that. I…

Sure, we all say: bah, no one else has come close to apple's dominance in the music player and online software, we may even think it a little bit to. But face it, a lot of us are a…