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iPod on Windows

Posted by pudge on from the always-a-follower-never-a-leader dept.

niola writes "A story on Yahoo mentions the XPlay -- a cool software package that allows a Windows box with a FireWire port to mount the iPod as if it were a drive (gives it a letter too) so that you can upload songs to it. Looks really cool and has the ability to integrate with Windows Media Player." Will Apple sue over this? I guess it'll depend on whether or not they stand to lose money in lost Mac sales or gain money in extra iPod sales.

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  1. Analogy? by Zach` · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This would seem to be rather analagous to the whole DeCSS fiasco. If a user purchases a DVD, he should be able to watch it on whatever platform he chooses - Win32 or *nix. Similarly, if a user purchases an iPod, he should be able to use it on whatever platform he chooses - MacOS or Win32.

    Apple certainly might *try* to sue, and they might be successful in a legal sense, but the geek backlash would not be conducive to their bottom line.

    Also, does anyone know if Apple is taking a loss on the iPod? That might be likely, if they're counting on racking up additional hardware sales... just like MS/Sony selling their consoles at a loss, obviously expecting to make the money up when people purchase games.

  2. uhm isn't this REALLY old news? by neoscsi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I heard about this months ago...

  3. Re:Will apple sue? by wheany · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Steve Jobs said they plan to sell "as many as they can make".

    Wow, that's quite the head he's got there. You know, before Apple made the iPod, I was thinking of making a similiar mp3-player. The problem was I couldn't think of a way to make it profitable. Now I understand it was propably because I was thinking of selling maybe 30% of the players made...