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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. Re:very nice... by sgtsanity · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Pretty much? I was going for entirely. I guess 99.9% effort just isn't enough anymore...

  2. NEW SLASHDOT LOOK!!! by houston_pt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is it me or this new look is great?? ;-)
    Good one!

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  3. Re:Leads to decrease in iMac sales by chialea · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm seeing a lot more geeks buying macs with OS X. It runs LaTeX, and all those other geeky things I need to run, and the hardware's damn nice (I have an iBook with a CDRW/DVD drive -- for $1200, that's a pretty sweet deal). The interface is pretty and nice to use, though I miss focus-follows-mouse. It's pretty, but it's also the best laptop for the least money. My X20 is sitting on a shelf right next to me while I use the iBook, because it's simply nice to use, and has the capabilities I need. I don't run VirtualPC, I don't run Office, I don't run IE. The point is that I'm not rabid, I'm a geek, and I feel no pain because this is, under it all, a BSD box. It's becoming far more dangerous to make generalizations of the sort -- geeks like nice hardware too, and OS X has opened up Apple's stuff as a serious option.

    Lea