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Toshiba's iPod Competitor

Posted by timothy on from the mmmm-competition dept.

a lonely moose writes: "It looks like Toshiba basically copied Apple's iPod. They got cheap on screen size and unit weight, and without iTunes, it'll be darn hard to handle as elegantly as the iPod. Anyway, check out MacCentral's article and the smoking forum at the bottom."

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  1. Removeable 5GB HDD by jpaulson · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Removeable 5GB HDD, that fits in a card slot...
    That has potential... I see many options... Most of them along the lines of a decent replacement for the floppy disk finally.

    The player itself seems no different from a host of others.

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  2. Re:Competition is good by mblase · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apple should put more concetration on open standards then making hardware that is incompatible for the reason "just because"

    Apple's iPod hardware is entirely compatible. It's just a hard drive, with MP3 data stored in a particular sort of file tree. It's the software that Windows and Linux need to access it, and Apple hasn't bothered making that for the simple reason that they're not in the business of making PC products.

    XPlay and EphPod both work, separately or together, to bridge the iPod/PC gap just as iTunes already does for Macs. And they do so with Apple's blessing, because Apple already knows that being able to sell iPods to PC users would be a good business decision -- but using iPods to help sell iBooks and iMacs is, from their end, an even better one.

  3. Re:It can't be any worse than the i-plod by MaxVlast · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Please tell how, oh, how Linux was ripped off for OS X? Most of the ideas that are in OS X were released in 1988 with NEXTSTEP.

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