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Apple to Face iPod Clone Attack

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the they-have-cool-armor dept.

chr1sb writes "The Age has a commentary piece outlining how Apple's domination of the online media market is continuing to grow, but speculating that significant competition from the likes of Nokia and Motorola will rapidly relegate Apple's presence in the market to a corner, just as clone manufacturing of IBM PCs dominated the initial success of the Macintosh. From the article: 'The iPod/iTunes system will move into a niche with Macintosh computers because Steve Jobs has again stuck with closed architecture and total control. This will happen quickly because mobile phones are being turned over about every year.'."

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  1. cool site by jimmyt182 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://www.listwanted.com/

  2. Re:So are iPods. by squiggleslash · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Some Cellphone companies are worse than Apple or MSFT when it comes to vendor lock-in. The two services you mentioned come from Verizon Wireless, not Cingular. Cingular isn't a completely liberal company, but it's a hell of a lot better than Verizon Wireless who've been known to ask for firmware changes that force customization of phones to be done over the cellular network (=$ airtime revenue for Verizon), amongst other things.

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  3. who is chr1sb and why should i give a fuck? by dmarcoot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    chr1sb?
    Seriously, is he 12 years old?

    nevermind his analogy is fatally flawed and has perspective of i dunno, someone who wasn't born in until after 1980.