Replace one inferior product with another
June 19, 2006An article at CoolTechZone (I never liked that Fisher Price name) glorifies the iPod and states that Microsoft will never be able to crush it. How wrong they are. Microsoft needs to do little:
- Design something that is as ‘good’ or at least marginally better than the iPod. Not hard to do, as the iPod is a crap little thing in every aspect (build quality, audio quality, price, fixability), and sell it at a bargain price (which MS can do with such cash reserves);
- Install the sync/online shop software (Windows Media Player 11+) on every OEM install of Vista;
- Give a big sack of money to any chart-leading ‘artist’ to carry one in a music video;
- Byebye iPod.
It’s that simple. It will take very little to replace one inferior product with another. Of course I will continue to use HiMD.
If MS can so easily squash and obliterate the iPod with a device of their own design, then pray tell… why the (!!!) haven’t they done it already? Oh, gee, a few *YEARS* isn’t enough time to come up with an iPod destroyer?
Yes, MS has been around a lot longer than the iPod and thus, they saw it when it was first created and watched as it’s gone through 5 generations, spawned the shuffle and nano, and stayed the leader though it all.
Oh, yeah… I’m shaking in my wet diaper over this “iPod destroyer”
that…
**EVERYONE IS TRYING TO MAKE AND NO ONE SUCCEEDS!**
Face it, you’re an Apple hater and you hate everything Apple stands for. You’re as much a lamer as all the rest that keep bitching and moaning and whining about how “lame” the iPod really is. Fact is, Apple created a true winner and everyone (but you and the rest, too resentful to accept the truth) knows it.
Luposian
Comment by Luposian — June 20, 2006 @ 12:04 am
Luposian, cut the crap.
Although, I have to say that creating a device even “marginally” better than the iPod is not an easy task for any company. The iPod is a well-designed device: its UI makes sense.
But the point is, even if the device is not better than the iPod, it can acquire quite some market share away from Apple in the next 3 years simply by including the sync software in Vista and pushing their product through it.
Comment by Eugenia — June 20, 2006 @ 7:24 am
That’s where we disagree. I hate its UI, I hate its cotrols (clickwheel), and I especially hate its audio quality (MD has a much warmer, complete sound).
So, for me, making an iPod rival shouldn’t be too hard. I think many, many .mp3 players out there are already alot better than the iPod; it’s just that the companies making iPod rivals today don’t have a platform such as Windows to use as a starting point. MS does.
Remember how everybody laughed at MS for entering the gaming market? They’re now on par, if not better, at sales than Nintendo!
Comment by Administrator — June 20, 2006 @ 8:00 am