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Microsoft, Sony Announce iPod Competitors
Pfhreak writes "According to the Denver Post -- Las Vegas section, a little over halfway down the page -- Microsoft will begin selling a $50 music player that will 'look and feel as good as the iPod' later this year. Yusuf Mehdi, a Microsoft VP, is quoted as saying that the player will give customers more choices than Apple."
In related news, Tetsugaku-San writes "The Register has the scoop on Sony's new portable audio/visual playback device. Impressively it plays MPEG2, MPEG4, BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF and MP3 (finally they got the message Apple was gonna whoop em!) straight out of the box. Not as good battery life as I'd like to see, but real world tests remain to be seen."
As a typical slashdot idiot, hondo77, you seem to not get the fact that FUD and vapor is something only coming from idiots like you. In a competition you are free to say nice things about your own product. Trying to bash others just like you do is called FUD and vapor, which is what slashdot and you idiots are all about. So, you should just stfu and be quite about things you just don't get. Trying to work for free for Apple is also called idiocy.
All he said was it's going to look neat. More Microsoft FUD and vapor.
You're absolutely right. Microsoft *never* comes out with good products. Largest software company in the world has no need for vaporware. XBox? Their mice & keyboards? Of, I dunno... all of their software. You're a moron.
There should be a way to stomp on Microsoft by using anti-dumping laws or something like that.
Yes, let's pass a law preventing them from doing something they're not doing but technically could!
No offense, but you're an idiot. That's no big deal. We're all idiots. It's just that in this case you chose to express your idiocy in a particularly visible way.
Microsoft would never do anything like that because they are a business, not a product-giving-away-thing. Sure, they'll sell the razors at a loss to make it up on the blades (think Xbox and games), but why would they ever do something like that with a product that has no expectation of future profitability?
To quote The Simpsons, "I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks!"
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