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Microsoft to Introduce GBA-competitor?
An anonymous reader writes "It seems that Nintendo will have a competition in the handheld market soon. ZDnet has an article that says Microsoft's plan to introduce a 'Media Pad' which includes among other things 'serve as a portable game player in conjunction with Microsoft's Xbox video game console.' So I guess the news I heard regarding their interest in the portable industry will soon come true, the question is, can they take the crown from Nintendo?"
...can it run linux?
Unfortunately, Nintendo's poor business sense and lack of R&D has finally caught up to them. They are fighting an 800-lb gorilla that has billion$ of dollars to spend on dominating every area of the market that it enters. And it looks like Microsoft is about to release a very versatile, multipurpose handheld device that will blow all of Nintendo's offerings right out of the water.
On the plus side, this means that consumers will have easier access to more advanced technology than before. On the minus side, Microsoft tends to release these products to reinforce their other monopolies. And that is exactly why Microsoft's corporate charter needs to be revoked: they do not play fair. They don't innovate just to create a better product; they innovate to improve sales of their other products. It's the same reason why Windows XP tries to con you into creating a Passport account and using Hotmail and MSN Messenger. Once they make all of the competitors disappear, they can start charging for their crappy services.
So, it would probably be an excellent idea to avoid this new device like the plague. "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" won't work with us because we are better than them.
Bill
Or you could do something *really* radical, and just not buy this new MS console, rather than just posting the standard 'mummy, mummy, its not fair, MS have done something else bad' whiny-assed opinion.
Jee-sus - if anything, this whole story is a fucking troll so the standard M$-h8ters can trot out the standard slashdot line. AGAIN!
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