Humble Beginnings
The article entitled "The Perfect Thing" about the inception and creation of the iPodMy favorite part of the article was the reaction of Bill Gates to the iPod. I could just see the super genius picking up the device and furiously pushing the buttons. In my recollection of this event (keep in mind I was not there) he also sniffed the iPod and licked it, like a dog investigating a new toy.
"'It looks like a great product,' he said.
Then he paused a second. Something didn't compute.
'It's only for Macintosh?' he asked."
I think it was then Bill Gates lost his mind. He became so set in out-doing Apple that recently Microsoft released their own MP3 player, Zune.
Ipod holds something like 70% of the MP3 player market. Why would Microsoft put themselves in that position? Shouldn't they just stick to making Xbox's and computers? Which as a personal note I would like to add that the Xbox could stand to be improved. I've heard that even the new 360's are incredibly noisy.
I think Gates should stick to the computer stuff and leave the music to Apple
posted by Raven Von Kaos at 12:12 PM
3 Comments:
Yeah. I can't imagine taking something like that then releasing something that's dumb and expecting it to take over. Or even make a dent. I guess the nice thing is they're probably cheaper than Apple stuff. Shoot, ANYTHING is cheaper than Apple stuff! Back in the day, I think they even sold their keyboards and mice separately from their computers...how nice!
1:23 PM
I think everyone is trying to compete with Ipod since it is making so much money. I guess Bill Gates just can't take it that someone else is beating him.
Anyway, as a consumer, I don't think device should be limited to one system because this way a company can easily monopolize things. This also makes things harder, for needing to transfer from MAC to PC or PC to MAC.
11:09 PM
Oh Bill Gates... Apple's won this one. 9 times out of 10, a person with an mp3 player has an iPod. When someone else has a different mp3 player, I always go "wow! I wonder what kind that is!" I don't know a lot of other mp3 players out there because just about everyone has an iPod. And with this new Zune from Bill Gates... I almost feel like it's not worth my time to look into it. I'm happy with my iPod and all other mp3 players just seem like they're to catch up with the iPod's awesome marketing features.
2:48 PM
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