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Even the Xbox 360 is hyped out of control. It barely sold 7 million units in a year--it was actually outsold by the five year old PlayStation 2, which sold 11 million units in the same time period.

Microsoft is fooling itself; it's time for the company to get real and start competing, because its empire is declining. Remember that Apple was also making craploads of cash deep into the late Sculley Era, when it was obvious that the company was about to crash. Microsoft has shadowed Apple's brush with death, making the exact same set of moves exactly ten years after Apple.

10 Ways Microsoft can Salvage their iPod Killer

10 iPod vs Zune Myths

10 More Myths of Zune Why Microsoft Can't Compete With iTunes

Strike 3: Why Zune will Bomb this Winter

The Two Faced Monster Inside Zune

Even the Xbox 360 is hyped out of control. It barely sold 7 million units in a year--it was actually outsold by the five year old PlayStation 2, which sold 11 million units in the same time period.

Microsoft is fooling itself; it's time for the company to get real and start competing, because its empire is declining. Remember that Apple was also making craploads of cash deep into the late Sculley Era, when it was obvious that the company was about to crash. Microsoft has shadowed Apple's brush with death, making the exact same set of moves exactly ten years after Apple.

10 Ways Microsoft can Salvage their iPod Killer

10 iPod vs Zune Myths

10 More Myths of Zune Why Microsoft Can't Compete With iTunes

Strike 3: Why Zune will Bomb this Winter

The Two Faced Monster Inside Zune

PlayStation 3 vs. Xbox 360 vs. Nintendo Wii

The Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii both jumped into the game console ring to compete against Microsoft's Xbox 360. Who is going to win? A half decade ago, many analysts projected a close race between the PS2, Xbox, and GameCube, but they were wrong. Here's how things turned out, and what's changed.

5 Success Factors for Next Generation Game Consoles

Five primary factors will determine the winner in the new generation of consoles. Here 's a look at the obvious differentiators between Sony's PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360, and Nintento's Wii, and how each company plays out a unique strategy in the bid to sell the most consoles

PlayStation 3 vs. Xbox 360 vs. Nintendo Wii

The Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii both jumped into the game console ring to compete against Microsoft's Xbox 360. Who is going to win? A half decade ago, many analysts projected a close race between the PS2, Xbox, and GameCube, but they were wrong. Here's how things turned out, and what's changed.

5 Success Factors for Next Generation Game Consoles

Five primary factors will determine the winner in the new generation of consoles. Here 's a look at the obvious differentiators between Sony's PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360, and Nintento's Wii, and how each company plays out a unique strategy in the bid to sell the most consoles

Part 5 in this series is available now:

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/D1C45F9C-CB 5F-4A6A-B1FE-ED016E93DC7F.html

And you can enjoy parts 1-3 also:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/18839BF9-50 98-460A-8276-39CC96170D6E.html
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/859889E4-DA 77-4FA9-BB3F-7BB89A7BEBF9.html
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/17E71735-2D 88-40F0-9543-33A05AD2585E.html

Part 5 in this series is available now:

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/D1C45F9C-CB 5F-4A6A-B1FE-ED016E93DC7F.html

And you can enjoy parts 1-3 also:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/18839BF9-50 98-460A-8276-39CC96170D6E.html
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/859889E4-DA 77-4FA9-BB3F-7BB89A7BEBF9.html
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/17E71735-2D 88-40F0-9543-33A05AD2585E.html

Part 5 in this series is available now:

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/D1C45F9C-CB 5F-4A6A-B1FE-ED016E93DC7F.html

And you can enjoy parts 1-3 also:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/18839BF9-50 98-460A-8276-39CC96170D6E.html
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/859889E4-DA 77-4FA9-BB3F-7BB89A7BEBF9.html
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/17E71735-2D 88-40F0-9543-33A05AD2585E.html

Part 5 in this series is available now:

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/D1C45F9C-CB 5F-4A6A-B1FE-ED016E93DC7F.html

And you can enjoy parts 1-3 also:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/18839BF9-50 98-460A-8276-39CC96170D6E.html
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/859889E4-DA 77-4FA9-BB3F-7BB89A7BEBF9.html
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/17E71735-2D 88-40F0-9543-33A05AD2585E.html

Windows XP Home
Windows XP Media Center
Windows XP Pro

and perhaps other versions of Windows XP.

10 Ways Microsoft can Salvage their iPod Killer

10 iPod vs Zune Myths

Why Microsoft Can't Compete With iTunes

Strike 3: Why Zune will Bomb this Winter

The Two Faced Monster Inside Zune

Windows XP Home
Windows XP Media Center
Windows XP Pro

and perhaps other versions of Windows XP.

10 Ways Microsoft can Salvage their iPod Killer

10 iPod vs Zune Myths

Why Microsoft Can't Compete With iTunes

Strike 3: Why Zune will Bomb this Winter

The Two Faced Monster Inside Zune

Windows XP Home
Windows XP Media Center
Windows XP Pro

and perhaps other versions of Windows XP.

10 Ways Microsoft can Salvage their iPod Killer

10 iPod vs Zune Myths

Why Microsoft Can't Compete With iTunes

Strike 3: Why Zune will Bomb this Winter

The Two Faced Monster Inside Zune

Windows XP Home
Windows XP Media Center
Windows XP Pro

and perhaps other versions of Windows XP.

10 Ways Microsoft can Salvage their iPod Killer

10 iPod vs Zune Myths

Why Microsoft Can't Compete With iTunes

Strike 3: Why Zune will Bomb this Winter

The Two Faced Monster Inside Zune

Windows XP Home
Windows XP Media Center
Windows XP Pro

and perhaps other versions of Windows XP.

10 Ways Microsoft can Salvage their iPod Killer

10 iPod vs Zune Myths

Why Microsoft Can't Compete With iTunes

Strike 3: Why Zune will Bomb this Winter

The Two Faced Monster Inside Zune

Personally, I find this picture more fitting for the Zune. :D

Just as long as it doesn't lead to THIS!

we all know it doesn't.

The iTunes Vendor lock-in myth:

- because in the 70s, our songs weren't locked into 8-tracks and LPs

- because in the 80s, our songs weren't locked into cassettes (and taping records introduced no sound quality loss)

- because in the 90s, our songs weren't locked into CDs (and recording CDs to tape introduced no sound quality loss)

- because since the CD, music hasn't come under attack from the draconian DRM forced into DAT, MiniDisc, DVD-Audio, WMA and ATRAC.

Please stop repeating the bullshit that iTunes feather-weight DRM is breaking your back. You are either an industry shill pining for real DRM, or a clueless communist who demands that the world entertain them for free. Either way, you're wasting valuable oxygen just to spew out the same old myths repeatedly.

10 iPod vs Zune Myths

10 Ways Microsoft can Salvage their iPod Killer

Why Microsoft Can't Compete With iTunes

we all know it doesn't.

The iTunes Vendor lock-in myth:

- because in the 70s, our songs weren't locked into 8-tracks and LPs

- because in the 80s, our songs weren't locked into cassettes (and taping records introduced no sound quality loss)

- because in the 90s, our songs weren't locked into CDs (and recording CDs to tape introduced no sound quality loss)

- because since the CD, music hasn't come under attack from the draconian DRM forced into DAT, MiniDisc, DVD-Audio, WMA and ATRAC.

Please stop repeating the bullshit that iTunes feather-weight DRM is breaking your back. You are either an industry shill pining for real DRM, or a clueless communist who demands that the world entertain them for free. Either way, you're wasting valuable oxygen just to spew out the same old myths repeatedly.

10 iPod vs Zune Myths

10 Ways Microsoft can Salvage their iPod Killer

Why Microsoft Can't Compete With iTunes

we all know it doesn't.

The iTunes Vendor lock-in myth:

- because in the 70s, our songs weren't locked into 8-tracks and LPs

- because in the 80s, our songs weren't locked into cassettes (and taping records introduced no sound quality loss)

- because in the 90s, our songs weren't locked into CDs (and recording CDs to tape introduced no sound quality loss)

- because since the CD, music hasn't come under attack from the draconian DRM forced into DAT, MiniDisc, DVD-Audio, WMA and ATRAC.

Please stop repeating the bullshit that iTunes feather-weight DRM is breaking your back. You are either an industry shill pining for real DRM, or a clueless communist who demands that the world entertain them for free. Either way, you're wasting valuable oxygen just to spew out the same old myths repeatedly.

10 iPod vs Zune Myths

10 Ways Microsoft can Salvage their iPod Killer

Why Microsoft Can't Compete With iTunes

10 iPod vs Zune Myths

10 Ways Microsoft can Salvage their iPod Killer

Why Microsoft Can't Compete With iTunes
"Here's the secret answers that expose a series of myths concerning Microsoft's ability to own new markets, why its monopoly position won't be of any help, and why the company's consumer retail strategies aren't working."

10 iPod vs Zune Myths

10 Ways Microsoft can Salvage their iPod Killer

Why Microsoft Can't Compete With iTunes
"Here's the secret answers that expose a series of myths concerning Microsoft's ability to own new markets, why its monopoly position won't be of any help, and why the company's consumer retail strategies aren't working."

10 iPod vs Zune Myths

10 Ways Microsoft can Salvage their iPod Killer

Why Microsoft Can't Compete With iTunes
"Here's the secret answers that expose a series of myths concerning Microsoft's ability to own new markets, why its monopoly position won't be of any help, and why the company's consumer retail strategies aren't working."

Emusic and mp3.com sell music from groups that haven't signed away their work for a blockbuster promotion campaign. Unfortunately, most musicians have, are need to if they plan to make a real career.

Most of the revenues from iTunes currently just goes to labels, but it opens up the potential for direct sales that benefits artists more. And in fact, CD Baby is already in iTunes doing that.

How Original Content Will Change Entertainment "Steve Jobs has connections in music, movies, and TV - how long before Apple begins commissioning original programming? Here's a look at the music, movie and TV business, and why Apple's involvement in each is far larger than the mainstream media seems to understand."

You might as well have posted an article regarding that, it makes about as much sense as the one you did post. SLASHDOT EDITORS - PLEASE STOP POSTING ARTICLES WRITTEN BY APPLE FANBOIS!! You've already posted an article from Apple buttboy, Daniel Eran earlier this week:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/9D82740A-13 9C-432C-8279-AD2D4E04892E.html

In fact, all I've seen in the past few weeks is "Apple is great" and "Microsoft sucks". What the hell happened to this being a website about open source? Slashdot has become a marketing tool for Apple and its fanbois. This site is quickly becoming irrelevant to REAL tech users.

A compairson of how Microsoft, Yahoo and Google are fighting to shove ads at users, and why adware strategies are eating away at Microsoft's ability to support and extend their desktop and remain competitive.

"Microsoft's insatiable greed has resulted in a poorly designed software platform, rushed to market in order to kill emerging competition. Architectural flaws have resulted in a security crisis for users, which has resulted in an unsupportable mess for Microsoft. Rather than working pointedly to solve their flaws and the resulting platform crisis, Microsoft as a company has chased after adware revenue, and has exposed users to further grief by being part of the adware problem rather than its solution."

If Google did buy out YouTube, it could simply rebrand its Google Video site with YouTube icons and the MySpace kids wouldn't even notice.

Google faces significant risks from rushing in behind YT, because Google has money and is eminently suable. They can't afford to simply let copywrite material fly, because the studios will attack them just as newspapers and book publishers already have.

A RoughlyDrafted Magazine article looking at Apple's iTV, and why Apple is in deals with Google, explains more about why YouTube is such a mess and why big pockets will just make that mess more problematic:

Apple's iTV and Alternative Content: the future of podcasting, porn, indie media.

The following article is getting high ratings as well, on how Apple is positioning the iTV as an extension of the iPod platform in casual gaming, living room Widgets, and interactive content, with a history on how Apple dropped the ball with HyperCard, how the web took over, and why Apple has something new to offer today :

iTV Interactive: The Apple Game Console

In fact, it looks like MS isn't supporting much at all:

10 iPod vs Zune Myths

Yeah, Greenpeace apologized for using bad data and revised the report. They were jumping on apple for the publicity. http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/ABC6DFDA-9DE 9-4EA8-A269-65EAAB628676.html FUD.

"Where is the Greenpeace assertion that Apple's laptops are "the dirtiest ever"?"

Oh, I beg your pardon. I misunderstood. Greenpeace shrieks the loudest about Apple's products, so I was left with the assumption that they were manufactured with the blood of the innocent. My bad.
"Where is Greenpeace lionizing large companies with good PR departments (assumedly with dirty products)?"

They seem to love all over HP, which makes cheap quality disposable PC junk.

"Where are these Greenpeace laboratory test results?"

this guy says that the reuslt should be published by Greenpeace real soon now. Is he lying? Maybe. Let's look at the data and decide.

"And how does "5% cheaper notebooks" benefit outweigh "poisons people" risk?"

I'm not in the habit of eating electrical insulation, so I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to get poisoned by my powerbook. If there are in fact better alternatives, I hope Apple would in fact research and implement them. I don't care about whether they talk about it on their web site, which is the only thing Greenpeace's GreenOmeter seems to pay any attention to.

Traces of a NON REGULATED fire retardant CONSIDERED SAFE by the WHO (and the EU and the EPA) is all Greenpeace could find in the Mac Book Pro, so they spun a tale about how this TBBPA was a toxic chemical (is isn't) that is potentially killing babies (it isn't) when in reality, it saves lives by retarding plastics from burning and allowing an extra chance for babies to survive being taken out of a burning building before the toxic chemicals are released. Greenpeace lied to create sensationalist panic.

The flames of fires don't kill as fast as the toxic smoke. Pretty much everything on fire creates toxic fumes. That's why flame retardants are required by law to limit the damage of toxic fumes as much as possible. Obviously one shouldn't roll up their laptop and smoke it, but in a house fire, a new laptop is far less toxic than an old TV on fire.

Greenpeace doesn't give a fuck about the environment or fire safety or any other facts, they just want to create panic that generates donations. They are total frauds and lie incessantly.

Greenpeace Lies About Apple
Greenpeace Apologizes For Apple Stink
More Secrets: The Scandal of Green Computing
Top Secret: Greenpeace Report Misleading and Incompetent

Traces of a NON REGULATED fire retardant CONSIDERED SAFE by the WHO (and the EU and the EPA) is all Greenpeace could find in the Mac Book Pro, so they spun a tale about how this TBBPA was a toxic chemical (is isn't) that is potentially killing babies (it isn't) when in reality, it saves lives by retarding plastics from burning and allowing an extra chance for babies to survive being taken out of a burning building before the toxic chemicals are released. Greenpeace lied to create sensationalist panic.

The flames of fires don't kill as fast as the toxic smoke. Pretty much everything on fire creates toxic fumes. That's why flame retardants are required by law to limit the damage of toxic fumes as much as possible. Obviously one shouldn't roll up their laptop and smoke it, but in a house fire, a new laptop is far less toxic than an old TV on fire.

Greenpeace doesn't give a fuck about the environment or fire safety or any other facts, they just want to create panic that generates donations. They are total frauds and lie incessantly.

Greenpeace Lies About Apple
Greenpeace Apologizes For Apple Stink
More Secrets: The Scandal of Green Computing
Top Secret: Greenpeace Report Misleading and Incompetent

Traces of a NON REGULATED fire retardant CONSIDERED SAFE by the WHO (and the EU and the EPA) is all Greenpeace could find in the Mac Book Pro, so they spun a tale about how this TBBPA was a toxic chemical (is isn't) that is potentially killing babies (it isn't) when in reality, it saves lives by retarding plastics from burning and allowing an extra chance for babies to survive being taken out of a burning building before the toxic chemicals are released. Greenpeace lied to create sensationalist panic.

The flames of fires don't kill as fast as the toxic smoke. Pretty much everything on fire creates toxic fumes. That's why flame retardants are required by law to limit the damage of toxic fumes as much as possible. Obviously one shouldn't roll up their laptop and smoke it, but in a house fire, a new laptop is far less toxic than an old TV on fire.

Greenpeace doesn't give a fuck about the environment or fire safety or any other facts, they just want to create panic that generates donations. They are total frauds and lie incessantly.

Greenpeace Lies About Apple
Greenpeace Apologizes For Apple Stink
More Secrets: The Scandal of Green Computing
Top Secret: Greenpeace Report Misleading and Incompetent

Traces of a NON REGULATED fire retardant CONSIDERED SAFE by the WHO (and the EU and the EPA) is all Greenpeace could find in the Mac Book Pro, so they spun a tale about how this TBBPA was a toxic chemical (is isn't) that is potentially killing babies (it isn't) when in reality, it saves lives by retarding plastics from burning and allowing an extra chance for babies to survive being taken out of a burning building before the toxic chemicals are released. Greenpeace lied to create sensationalist panic.

The flames of fires don't kill as fast as the toxic smoke. Pretty much everything on fire creates toxic fumes. That's why flame retardants are required by law to limit the damage of toxic fumes as much as possible. Obviously one shouldn't roll up their laptop and smoke it, but in a house fire, a new laptop is far less toxic than an old TV on fire.

Greenpeace doesn't give a fuck about the environment or fire safety or any other facts, they just want to create panic that generates donations. They are total frauds and lie incessantly.

Greenpeace Lies About Apple
Greenpeace Apologizes For Apple Stink
More Secrets: The Scandal of Green Computing
Top Secret: Greenpeace Report Misleading and Incompetent

About the the inconsistencies and outright lies in Greenpeace' report read this, this and this.

About the the inconsistencies and outright lies in Greenpeace' report read this, this and this.

About the the inconsistencies and outright lies in Greenpeace' report read this, this and this.

The Greenpeace article is of dubious quality. Apparently, they even ignored their own lab testing, deciding instead to slam Apple. They even made a nifty little site to trash Apple, not only ripping off the apple.com design, but apparently a script as well (Apple's version).

To me, Greenpeace seems about as trustworthy as PETA at the moment.

It's hard to be sure, since the link is down, but assuming this is the 'Greenpeace report' FUD, they admitted it was all lies over a week ago.

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/E83D58B3-10E 0-4A9C-8847-BCE665EE235C.html

--- Greenpeace Apologizes for Apple Stink

Apple keeps prices low because they want sources of content for iPod players.

Apple doesn't care if you fill up your iPod with CDs or even recordings you made yourself; they just want to sell iPods. That allows them to run the iTunes Store without a profit. They do profit some, and they obviously profit indirectly in many other ways, but they don't HAVE to profit. Apple worked to build support for podcasting, which makes them nothing - but gives iPods something to do, and users a reason to buy them.

That's different than anyone else. Microsoft & its WMA partners expected stores to make significant money. Why would MTV Urge care about enriching WMA hardware partners who don't share the wealth? It's a model that works very differently - or actually doesn't work at all. Without functional stores, there is not enough WMA content for WMA players to matter, particularly compared to iTunes.

It's all part of Apple's interconnected strategy for the iPod, which is connecting media downloads, wireless, and gaming into a mesh of markets that work to feed demand for each other. Whether you like Apple or not, its a good example of how to deliver a commercial product: grow it slowly, don't try to profit at every angle, and build for a future platform, rather than instant profits. Ironically, many of Apple's strategies are ones Microsoft used in building its own Windows platform.

10 Ways Microsoft Can Salvage their iPod Killer
Hacking iPod Games: How Apple's DRM Works
iTV: the Killer App for Wireless N
Apple's New Dual Processor Game Console
How Apple's iTV Media Strategy Works
Why Apple is Winning in Media Downloads
The Apple iTMS vs Amazon Unbox Rivalry Myth
1990-1995: The Rise of Windows

Apple keeps prices low because they want sources of content for iPod players.

Apple doesn't care if you fill up your iPod with CDs or even recordings you made yourself; they just want to sell iPods. That allows them to run the iTunes Store without a profit. They do profit some, and they obviously profit indirectly in many other ways, but they don't HAVE to profit. Apple worked to build support for podcasting, which makes them nothing - but gives iPods something to do, and users a reason to buy them.

That's different than anyone else. Microsoft & its WMA partners expected stores to make significant money. Why would MTV Urge care about enriching WMA hardware partners who don't share the wealth? It's a model that works very differently - or actually doesn't work at all. Without functional stores, there is not enough WMA content for WMA players to matter, particularly compared to iTunes.

It's all part of Apple's interconnected strategy for the iPod, which is connecting media downloads, wireless, and gaming into a mesh of markets that work to feed demand for each other. Whether you like Apple or not, its a good example of how to deliver a commercial product: grow it slowly, don't try to profit at every angle, and build for a future platform, rather than instant profits. Ironically, many of Apple's strategies are ones Microsoft used in building its own Windows platform.

10 Ways Microsoft Can Salvage their iPod Killer
Hacking iPod Games: How Apple's DRM Works
iTV: the Killer App for Wireless N
Apple's New Dual Processor Game Console
How Apple's iTV Media Strategy Works
Why Apple is Winning in Media Downloads
The Apple iTMS vs Amazon Unbox Rivalry Myth
1990-1995: The Rise of Windows

Apple keeps prices low because they want sources of content for iPod players.

Apple doesn't care if you fill up your iPod with CDs or even recordings you made yourself; they just want to sell iPods. That allows them to run the iTunes Store without a profit. They do profit some, and they obviously profit indirectly in many other ways, but they don't HAVE to profit. Apple worked to build support for podcasting, which makes them nothing - but gives iPods something to do, and users a reason to buy them.

That's different than anyone else. Microsoft & its WMA partners expected stores to make significant money. Why would MTV Urge care about enriching WMA hardware partners who don't share the wealth? It's a model that works very differently - or actually doesn't work at all. Without functional stores, there is not enough WMA content for WMA players to matter, particularly compared to iTunes.

It's all part of Apple's interconnected strategy for the iPod, which is connecting media downloads, wireless, and gaming into a mesh of markets that work to feed demand for each other. Whether you like Apple or not, its a good example of how to deliver a commercial product: grow it slowly, don't try to profit at every angle, and build for a future platform, rather than instant profits. Ironically, many of Apple's strategies are ones Microsoft used in building its own Windows platform.

10 Ways Microsoft Can Salvage their iPod Killer
Hacking iPod Games: How Apple's DRM Works
iTV: the Killer App for Wireless N
Apple's New Dual Processor Game Console
How Apple's iTV Media Strategy Works
Why Apple is Winning in Media Downloads
The Apple iTMS vs Amazon Unbox Rivalry Myth
1990-1995: The Rise of Windows

Apple keeps prices low because they want sources of content for iPod players.

Apple doesn't care if you fill up your iPod with CDs or even recordings you made yourself; they just want to sell iPods. That allows them to run the iTunes Store without a profit. They do profit some, and they obviously profit indirectly in many other ways, but they don't HAVE to profit. Apple worked to build support for podcasting, which makes them nothing - but gives iPods something to do, and users a reason to buy them.

That's different than anyone else. Microsoft & its WMA partners expected stores to make significant money. Why would MTV Urge care about enriching WMA hardware partners who don't share the wealth? It's a model that works very differently - or actually doesn't work at all. Without functional stores, there is not enough WMA content for WMA players to matter, particularly compared to iTunes.

It's all part of Apple's interconnected strategy for the iPod, which is connecting media downloads, wireless, and gaming into a mesh of markets that work to feed demand for each other. Whether you like Apple or not, its a good example of how to deliver a commercial product: grow it slowly, don't try to profit at every angle, and build for a future platform, rather than instant profits. Ironically, many of Apple's strategies are ones Microsoft used in building its own Windows platform.

10 Ways Microsoft Can Salvage their iPod Killer
Hacking iPod Games: How Apple's DRM Works
iTV: the Killer App for Wireless N
Apple's New Dual Processor Game Console
How Apple's iTV Media Strategy Works
Why Apple is Winning in Media Downloads
The Apple iTMS vs Amazon Unbox Rivalry Myth
1990-1995: The Rise of Windows

Apple keeps prices low because they want sources of content for iPod players.

Apple doesn't care if you fill up your iPod with CDs or even recordings you made yourself; they just want to sell iPods. That allows them to run the iTunes Store without a profit. They do profit some, and they obviously profit indirectly in many other ways, but they don't HAVE to profit. Apple worked to build support for podcasting, which makes them nothing - but gives iPods something to do, and users a reason to buy them.

That's different than anyone else. Microsoft & its WMA partners expected stores to make significant money. Why would MTV Urge care about enriching WMA hardware partners who don't share the wealth? It's a model that works very differently - or actually doesn't work at all. Without functional stores, there is not enough WMA content for WMA players to matter, particularly compared to iTunes.

It's all part of Apple's interconnected strategy for the iPod, which is connecting media downloads, wireless, and gaming into a mesh of markets that work to feed demand for each other. Whether you like Apple or not, its a good example of how to deliver a commercial product: grow it slowly, don't try to profit at every angle, and build for a future platform, rather than instant profits. Ironically, many of Apple's strategies are ones Microsoft used in building its own Windows platform.

10 Ways Microsoft Can Salvage their iPod Killer
Hacking iPod Games: How Apple's DRM Works
iTV: the Killer App for Wireless N
Apple's New Dual Processor Game Console
How Apple's iTV Media Strategy Works
Why Apple is Winning in Media Downloads
The Apple iTMS vs Amazon Unbox Rivalry Myth
1990-1995: The Rise of Windows

Apple keeps prices low because they want sources of content for iPod players.

Apple doesn't care if you fill up your iPod with CDs or even recordings you made yourself; they just want to sell iPods. That allows them to run the iTunes Store without a profit. They do profit some, and they obviously profit indirectly in many other ways, but they don't HAVE to profit. Apple worked to build support for podcasting, which makes them nothing - but gives iPods something to do, and users a reason to buy them.

That's different than anyone else. Microsoft & its WMA partners expected stores to make significant money. Why would MTV Urge care about enriching WMA hardware partners who don't share the wealth? It's a model that works very differently - or actually doesn't work at all. Without functional stores, there is not enough WMA content for WMA players to matter, particularly compared to iTunes.

It's all part of Apple's interconnected strategy for the iPod, which is connecting media downloads, wireless, and gaming into a mesh of markets that work to feed demand for each other. Whether you like Apple or not, its a good example of how to deliver a commercial product: grow it slowly, don't try to profit at every angle, and build for a future platform, rather than instant profits. Ironically, many of Apple's strategies are ones Microsoft used in building its own Windows platform.

10 Ways Microsoft Can Salvage their iPod Killer
Hacking iPod Games: How Apple's DRM Works
iTV: the Killer App for Wireless N
Apple's New Dual Processor Game Console
How Apple's iTV Media Strategy Works
Why Apple is Winning in Media Downloads
The Apple iTMS vs Amazon Unbox Rivalry Myth
1990-1995: The Rise of Windows

Apple keeps prices low because they want sources of content for iPod players.

Apple doesn't care if you fill up your iPod with CDs or even recordings you made yourself; they just want to sell iPods. That allows them to run the iTunes Store without a profit. They do profit some, and they obviously profit indirectly in many other ways, but they don't HAVE to profit. Apple worked to build support for podcasting, which makes them nothing - but gives iPods something to do, and users a reason to buy them.

That's different than anyone else. Microsoft & its WMA partners expected stores to make significant money. Why would MTV Urge care about enriching WMA hardware partners who don't share the wealth? It's a model that works very differently - or actually doesn't work at all. Without functional stores, there is not enough WMA content for WMA players to matter, particularly compared to iTunes.

It's all part of Apple's interconnected strategy for the iPod, which is connecting media downloads, wireless, and gaming into a mesh of markets that work to feed demand for each other. Whether you like Apple or not, its a good example of how to deliver a commercial product: grow it slowly, don't try to profit at every angle, and build for a future platform, rather than instant profits. Ironically, many of Apple's strategies are ones Microsoft used in building its own Windows platform.

10 Ways Microsoft Can Salvage their iPod Killer
Hacking iPod Games: How Apple's DRM Works
iTV: the Killer App for Wireless N
Apple's New Dual Processor Game Console
How Apple's iTV Media Strategy Works
Why Apple is Winning in Media Downloads
The Apple iTMS vs Amazon Unbox Rivalry Myth
1990-1995: The Rise of Windows

Apple keeps prices low because they want sources of content for iPod players.

Apple doesn't care if you fill up your iPod with CDs or even recordings you made yourself; they just want to sell iPods. That allows them to run the iTunes Store without a profit. They do profit some, and they obviously profit indirectly in many other ways, but they don't HAVE to profit. Apple worked to build support for podcasting, which makes them nothing - but gives iPods something to do, and users a reason to buy them.

That's different than anyone else. Microsoft & its WMA partners expected stores to make significant money. Why would MTV Urge care about enriching WMA hardware partners who don't share the wealth? It's a model that works very differently - or actually doesn't work at all. Without functional stores, there is not enough WMA content for WMA players to matter, particularly compared to iTunes.

It's all part of Apple's interconnected strategy for the iPod, which is connecting media downloads, wireless, and gaming into a mesh of markets that work to feed demand for each other. Whether you like Apple or not, its a good example of how to deliver a commercial product: grow it slowly, don't try to profit at every angle, and build for a future platform, rather than instant profits. Ironically, many of Apple's strategies are ones Microsoft used in building its own Windows platform.

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iTV: the Killer App for Wireless N
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How Apple's iTV Media Strategy Works
Why Apple is Winning in Media Downloads
The Apple iTMS vs Amazon Unbox Rivalry Myth
1990-1995: The Rise of Windows

So I can't really imagine that anyone is going to actually use the Zune, but what about Apple, and in particular the Airport Express and the Airport AV (aka iTV)?

iTV: the Killer App for Wireless N

Both use enryption to tunnel your tunes (and soon your videos) to another basestation. Will Creative Commons be pissed off that their content is protected as it travels throught users' homes?

What about VPN? Will Creative Commons be upset to find that nobody can copy their stuff as it scatters through the tubes of the Interweb in a bunch of encrypted chunks that are entirely impossible to reuse and adapt, from a client to their workplace?

And of course, What about Bob? And think of the children, etc.

How Apple's iTV Media Strategy Works

A Visual Comparison of CD, DVD, HD and iTMS

Why Apple is Winning in Media Downloads

The Apple iTMS vs Amazon Unbox Rivalry Myth

How Apple's iTV Media Strategy Works

A Visual Comparison of CD, DVD, HD and iTMS

Why Apple is Winning in Media Downloads

The Apple iTMS vs Amazon Unbox Rivalry Myth

How Apple's iTV Media Strategy Works

A Visual Comparison of CD, DVD, HD and iTMS

Why Apple is Winning in Media Downloads

The Apple iTMS vs Amazon Unbox Rivalry Myth