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Bill Gates: Cellphone will Beat iPod

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the integration-is-the-future dept.

93,000 writes "CNN is running an article featuring Gates' prediction that the iPod is on the way out. From the article: 'As good as Apple may be, I don't believe the success of the iPod is sustainable in the long run.' His prediction for a successor? Mobile phones-- powered by none other than Windows Mobile 5.0, of course."

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  1. He might be right... by HuffMeister · · Score: 5, Informative

    If my windows mobile phone didn't continually crash. Every couple of days the Windows Mobile OS crashes and it won't recognize any button presses. This is particularly annoying as it usually happens when answering calls, and requires pulling the battery out to hard resetting the phone. I originally got the phone because everybody in my office was getting them, and so I didn't have much of a choice. I was skeptical about running Microsoft anything, but I thought, "Hey: Different OS, Different Codebase, maybe it won't be filled with bugs!" Boy, was I wrong!

  2. MS are desperately looking for a niche by Colin+Smith · · Score: 5, Informative

    They can see the end of Windows and Office steaming towards them from a mile off and they want to be able to step aside before it hits them hard.

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  3. Re:40 Gigs of Ring Tones by ericdano · · Score: 4, Informative

    Um, had one. It's too big and bulky.

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  4. Cell phones beating the iPod? No problem! by 8127972 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apple and Motorola are working on a cell phone/iPod hybrid. However they're having a hard time getting carriers to sign on. Read about it here.

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  5. Re:Anyone else... by Princeofcups · · Score: 5, Informative

    > Gates' prediction that the Internet would be huge business was not wrong at all.

    Um, no. Gates thought that the internet was a joke, not for the business user. M$ was very late coming out with a browser, because they had no interest until it was almost too late. They scrambled like mad to warp and mutate Mosaic into the non-standards complient bastard IE when it was obvious that the internet was not going away.

    jfs

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