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07/14/2005, 7:40am, EDT

Thursday, July 14th

iPodNN: Sony ousts Shuffle, iPod ad parody, ...

iPodNN roundup: Sony's new line of MP3 players have displaced Apple's Shuffle as the top-selling flash-based player in Japan.... Layers magazine has released an "iPod Flea" parody ad.... Microsoft said it will work with Creative and other partners to help challenge the dominance of the iPod.... A recent report offered photos of a subway train in Japan "dressed up" for an iPod campaign.


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MS+Creative=Happy Apple
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07/14, 11:41am, EDT
Microsoft is teaming with Creative to "challenge the dominance of the iPod". Now, Apple's nearest competitor, Creative (with less than 5% of the portable digital music player market), is gonna get an assist from Microsoft. That can mean only one sure thing: a gadget with a gazillion features that runs on bloated software and uses Microsofts' proprietary DRM that will not play nice with the only Online Music Store that matters: iTunes Music Store. Basically, Creative is screwed as a company as they will just be yet another pawn of the Redmond Giant because Microsoft is only interested in one thing: to dethrone Apple's iTunes Music Store and its' AAC & Fairplay DRM formats so they can take over control of all digital media with their own proprietary DRM formats.
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The iPod Flea parody...
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07/14, 11:58am, EDT
...is absolutely hilarious!!! I especially like the Flea collar.
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Sony player is superior
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07/14, 1:02pm, EDT
I've seen that Sony flash player and with its features (the shuffle really has no features) it is a superior product. Fantastic screen and styling.

Unfortunately, it won't work with Macs and doesn't do AAC for you iTunes store junkies.

Oh well...
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Sony player
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07/14, 1:53pm, EDT
I cheked out the sony player and i affectively looks very cool. the screen is great, you actually know what is playing; of course it's not necessary but it's cool. I know as lot of people dont think a FM tuner is a nice featurre but I think it is.

The iPod Flea spoof if totally hilarious!!! «It actually play one mp3 over and over again›!!! No need for a screen!!! lol...
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ipod train? old news
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07/14, 3:51pm, EDT
The site reporting the ipod covered train is quite slow. I saw photos of that train over a month ago.
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Sony competition
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07/14, 4:37pm, EDT
I know the Sony player doesn't work with with the iTunes store but I think the bigger point is that there can be a quality mp3 player with a screen and an FM tuner built in for a reasonable price. I think a lot of people argued that it would cost Apple to much to make one.

I have an iPod and am wanting to buy another but will not until they include an FM tuner or both a tuner and a screen on the shuffle. There's just no good reason to not have them included now.
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