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iPod Most Popular Music Player on Microsoft Campus
bblazer writes "Wired is running an article about how despite the displeasure of management, the iPod is the most popular music player on the Microsoft campus. The article states that 80% of those who have digital music players have an iPod. Employees have even started using different headphones to be a bit more stealthy about it."
Well, I'm glad this popped up quick.
The answer is: NO. MS bought $150 million of Apple stock. Not even enough to be a voting share.
-mkb
The iPod is the most popular music player just about anywhere you would look, whether it be a company, school, or recreational area.
That's because they have the largest market share of any MP3 manufacturer.
It's not like M$ has their own branded player yet...
If it's supposed to move and doesn't, use WD-40. If it moves and it shouldn't, use duct tape.
Why is this particularly interesting?
... leading to similar class action suits against Walmart ... although the softies will be too soft to raise stink and lose their fat checks.
- If employees in Microsoft are allowed to carry a portable MP3 player, then does the management have a right to control which one they can?
- If after one year we find 80% of Microsoft employees carry non-iPod players, would that not be interesting. And would there not be undue pressure on employees
- If Microsoft was making MP3 players, even then should it matter what the employees buy? What if General Mills said you must eat only our cereals!!
It is interesting because it is an interesting take on reality (iPod share), management conflicts, employee preferences despite kool-aid. Sometimes just an honest peek into the realities behind a FUD campaign is interesting.
No, they bought non-voting stock.
How much they paid doesn't really mean anything.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
Why bother to innovate when it's easier to copy and buy them out? R&D at MS? What's that? MS has been the king of letting someone else do the R&D gruntwork, then they swoop in with their mass marketing and billions in cash to flush them out. If you extrapolate this ideology further, what will MS do once there are no more companies to buy or copy? Are they going to work to improve our computing experience? So long as they're making money, most probably not. This should make a great plot for a movie. Who will save us from the evil empire of software un-inventiveness? CD
I live in a college town, and every motherhumper who can afford khakis and polo shirts is running around with the signature white earbuds trailing out of their ears. The hugeass I'M A DJ NO REALLY headphones are totally last year.
You rarely see the players but you know they're wearing them. Only a matter of time until muggers figure this out- these hipster doofuses all eager to be cool have market themselves as being worth at least fifty to a hundred bucks on the back-of-the-truck resale channel.
The answer would be 100% of them.
Apple recently gave out iPod shuffles to all their employees.