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Apple to Face iPod Clone Attack
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.'."
Steve Jobs has said that the point of iTunes is to sell iPods - how is it that he cares about someone else cloning the hardware? Also, interop sould kind of run counter to the stated purpose of apple's music service.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
Waah! Apple makes better products!
Waah! Steve Jobs is smarter than us!
Waah! Apple makes it work while we have meetings!
Waah! We want total control and Apple won't let us!
Waah! Competition is too risky! We want a monopoly instead!
Of course, these are the exact same people who probably said "it'll never work" when the first mp3 players were announced. And they said "it'll never work" when Apple built iTunes. And they said "it'll never work" when Apple said they would make money on digital music. And they said "it'll never work" when Apple put it all together with OS X and the Mac and made the best computer system on the market, period.
And, as usual, they were wrong.
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
You thought my name meant what? How very dare you!
and I hope they're going to have support for podcasts, photos, videos etc....
Mobile phones have had support for media files (which is all "podcasts" are), photos, and videos for longer than iPods have. Heck, mobile phones have had cameras built into them for years now.
actually, forget that, what about the chance that it'll even sync with my mac in the first place,
Quite slim, since Apple's proprietary and incompatible system is carefully designed to lock you into Apple products.
But if you'd read the fucking article, you'd know that if you're a Mac user, you're irrelevant to this discussion anyway. The whole point is that the iPod is going to end up being used only by Mac users, while everyone else will move on to standards-based cross-platform-compatible systems.
let alone not requiring me to use it's own ugly little app that messes everything about?
What, like iTunes?
You sound like a Jehova's witness predicting the end of the world...