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iPod for Windows (again)

Posted by pudge on from the i-thought-everyone-alredy-switched-to-mac dept.

beckett writes "Yahoo is reporting that TrentSoft has released EphPod, software that allows Windows users to use all the features of the iPod. I'm suprised that it took a third party to provide support." Also note the previous story on the XPlay, a similar software package.

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  1. Third party. by saintlupus · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm suprised that it took a third party to provide support.

    Yeah, that's weird. You'd certainly expect Apple to be eager to give people one less reason to buy their computers and OS.

    [/sarcasm]

    --saint

    1. Re:Third party. by Dephex+Twin · · Score: 2, Funny

      He's probably also wondering when Apple is going to port OS X to Intel hardware.

      mark

      --

      If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -- Carl Sagan
  2. Re:Meaning of ":ephpod?" by EvilAlien · · Score: 5, Funny

    It comes from fPod, i.e., f'Pod, i.e., what you say when you can't use the f'ing iPod on your Windows box.

    --
    perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10)'
  3. Just waiting for... by mixbsd · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... Windows for iPod!

  4. Re:it is 400Mb/s... by Geekboy(Wizard) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I copied all of MS Office to my iPod in 5 seconds flat! (j/k)

  5. Re:Why are you surprised? by OpenMind(tm) · · Score: 5, Funny

    competitively priced notebooks (not to mention sexy)

    Brrr... I'm sorry, but I think that Apple, with its "sexy" machines is a major threat to human life on this planet. Apple wants us to redirect all our sexual energy into playing with computers, thus trimming the population growth rate, and making us weak. That way, we will be vulnerable when their teal-plastic-bubble robots move in to take control of the planet.

    Sure, it would be a benevolent dictatorship, with easy-to-use interfaces and open standards, but consider the horror when a person's largest muscle is his right index finger, from clicking that one button thousands of times a minute.

    Seriously, though, this is not a new tactic from Apple. The lack of a version of Final Cut Pro for Intel platforms has seriously annoyed me for a while. I can see this as a viable way to push their hardware, but I'm not sure they end up making more money by doing so. Limiting one of the best video editing packages to ~10% of the possible market is missing a big oppurtunity.

    When it comes down to it, I think Apple's software is what distinguishes it. The interesting form factors they put through are neat, but could be done as well with Intel hardware. Really Apple hardware doesn't do anything Intel hardware can't, except run MacOS. They would sell much more hardware, I think, if it was x86 based. But then they'd have nothing to push their operating system.

    So in the end, I have to wonder, is Apple using its software to push the hardware, or its hardware to push the OS platform.

  6. Re:No remote? by RootMoose · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh no next you'll say you wont ever buy it because the remote they've got in the works is only a one button remote.