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Jobs' Invitation To Microsoft a Trap?
An anonymous reader writes "Chris Seibold over at Apple Matters, has written up an interesting analysis on Steve Jobs' suggestion that Microsoft make their own mp3 player. He argues that it is more bait than business plan, a deft move by Steve Jobs to lure Microsoft into a can't-win war. The key, according to the article, is the licensing of FairPlay." From the article: "The folks who stick with Microsoft get to fight over, roughly, twenty percent of the market. The folks that go with Apple would be aligning themselves with what has become the industry standard. The players that license FairPlay would have access to the iTunes store, backwards compatibility with the songs consumers have already purchased, and a chance to compete on a perfectly level playing field with the iPod. It doesn't take a Stanford MBA to deduce that the potential rewards of opting to use FairPlay far outstrip the rewards of going with PlaysForSure."
In the immortal words of Bruce Cambell (Ash):
Its a trick. Get an Axe!
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Admiral Ackbar: It's a trap!!!!
Good karma sticks to me like velcro on a piece of plexiglass.
Move along, citizen.
otherwise, how would it BSOD?
http://xkcd.com/313/
Uh oh, the chairs will be flying at Microsoft over this..
but wouldn't Ballmer doing gorilla dance while stomping on iPod make him a 'Microsoft iPod killer'?
Be vewy vewy quiet... I'm hunting Micwosowfts!
But would Jobs really expect to trick MS into the losing battle of creating their own MP3 player? Of course not! He's secretly hinting that they...erm... buy the other companies making them!
That would sound a little bit more like the MS I know and love.
Mark my words... if your favorite MP3 player is one other than the iPod, and MS buys the company, I told you so!
Eerybody will have an mp3 player built into their cell phone in a dfew years and nobody will need an iPod. So unless Apple starts getting into the cell phone business they will lose to Motorola, Nokia, etc.
Vote for Pedro
It reminds me of the movie The Princess Bride...
Vizzini: But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
DoublePlusUngood...
Lets all sing together... "Apple is in the Hardware Business"
You misunderstand the code of the typical slashdotter:
evaluate(){
if(apple)
return good;
else if(microsoft)
return bad;
else if(google)
return good;
else if(DRM)
return bad;
else if(open source)
return good;
else if(monopoly)
return bad;
...
I am trolling
return CowboyNeal;
Favorite quote: "
Certainly not, everyone knows that Steve Jobs is a genuinely caring guy, even to his competitors. he was simply offering a little help to Microsoft, because he's such a great guy and just loves business and real competition. Way to be Steve, you've made Jesus smile.
MS won't make a Windows-Pod yet because it's too soon. They like to stay behind the times.
Can I bum a sig?
Obviously, that was John Titor and he simply dialed in the wrong year. Happens to the best of us.
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl