The Microsoft-branded devices will "look and feel" as good as the iPod for as little as $50, said Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of MSN at Microsoft Corp.
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"look and feels" means nothing. it would be more interesting, if they would be *a bit* more specific. what will this 50$ device be? a harddisk player?
regards; ilikedirt
regards; ilikedirt
probably full of DRM stuff and no support for other codecs than mp3 and microsoft's wma or further ms codecs.
QUOTE(detokaal @ May 29 2004, 10:02 AM)
The Microsoft-branded devices will "look and feel" as good as the iPod for as little as $50, said Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of MSN at Microsoft Corp.
He said no such thing, but reporters (and detokaal
) are pretty bad at checking facts. Here's the full quote from Mr. Mehdi:QUOTE
I personally have spent time with a bunch of hardware manufacturers who will launch hardware products when we ship our service that will look and feel as good as the iPod product. And they will undoubtedly be a little bit less expensive. Head-to-head against Apple, we'll have a device that will be available to the consumer. We won't produce it, but it will be available to the consumer...And then we'll have a bunch of other devices in between. Little ones that cost $50 bucks that you go running with. So, the proposition is that you can buy a number of different devices with the MSN Music service as opposed to just a single device from Apple.
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2004/05/28.3.shtml
From the article:
"The new DRM will let online music stores and other e-commerce sites offer music, videos, and other digital-media content on a subscription basis rather than for purchase. Users can then transfer the content to portable audio and video devices. When the subscription lapses, the content stops playing on the devices."
I won't be using it. I hope all these subscription (or time-limited) services go down
the drain.
"The new DRM will let online music stores and other e-commerce sites offer music, videos, and other digital-media content on a subscription basis rather than for purchase. Users can then transfer the content to portable audio and video devices. When the subscription lapses, the content stops playing on the devices."
I won't be using it. I hope all these subscription (or time-limited) services go down
the drain.
can we see some bloody pictures of the ting? I keep hearing about it, but not a single article has a pic, they just ramble MS hate or Mac love on and on and on...
Microsoft certainly denies it.
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