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Why Microsoft's Zune Scares Apple to the Core
BoredStiff writes "Computerworld has an article examining Microsoft's plans to launch a competitor to the Apple iPod, the wireless media player called Zune. The article lists five reasons why Apple may fear the Zune, and why it won't be as easily smacked down as the dozens of mp3 players before it have been. The Zune isn't just a music player, the article argues. Think of it as a portable, wireless, hardware version of MySpace. With the Zune, Microsoft is trying to launch a consumer media 'perfect storm.'" From the article: "Microsoft will make the movement of media between Windows, Soapbox and the Zune natural and seamless. The Zune interface is just like a miniature version of the Windows Media Center user interface and is very similar to some elements of Vista. Apple fans are overconfident in the iPod because Apple once commanded 92% of music player market share, a number that has since fallen to around 70%. About 30 million people own iPods. But Microsoft owns more than 90% of the worldwide operating systems market (compared with Apple's roughly 5%), representing some 300 million people. The company expects to have 200 million Vista users within two years."
AM is where you get all of the news you can care to listen to from radical far wing screwballs.
I read the internet for the articles.
Apple may take their time, but let's not pretend Microsoft is all that nimble.
Stop it.
Tubgirl is nothing of a mind scar compared to goatse.
Goatse can only be compared, in the harm it inflicts, to an old coconut.jpg skat file that roamed the BBSs twelve years ago.
My friends and I only had to say the word "coconut!" to gross out the other guy.
Tubgirl is gross, but it doesn't burn in your brain. I think I don't even remember the picture right now.