Tech Poll: Does it matter to you if your music player uses the Microsoft Music Engine
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What's a music player?
Sigh... Microsoft really had a chance to take a big chunk of Apple's market share. Unfortunately, iTunes is too integrated into people's brains and lack of iTunes support is going to be a deal breaker for a lot of people. IMO.
I'm not sure if iTunes support is proprietary, though, so it may not be Microsoft's fault...
I'm not sure if iTunes support is proprietary, though, so it may not be Microsoft's fault...
BTW, my thinking before I bought an Ipod was that I wanted something else, because I didn't want to be beholden to the industry leader. But I found out that all the players use MS products, I was like, Fascism is bad, so I am going to join the Nazi party...binary visions said:
apple hit the nail on the head with how a portable music player should work. i've used a lot of them in the past, and was always frustrated. i used to use mini-discs, but grew frustrated at having to manually convert many songs into the proper format (and some just wouldn't work period). i liked the MD's because of size and cost. software was the downside. itunes may all be proprietary, but it works, plain and simple. i just wish they would come out with a linux version, i want to cut all ties from micro$oft.
I don't really take market share into consideration when I buy things... If I want Shimano, I buy Shimano because it works best for me, I don't boycott them just because they're the industry leader.sanjuro said:
This Zune player could be an awesome little device. They're going to support peer-to-peer song streaming via WiFi, so if your buddy has the same player, you can stream songs to each other. Very neat. Nice, big screen, too.
I don't know what you're talking about and I think I'm glad that I don't.
The zune will go belly up very fast. If you have been reading up on it then you probably know what I'm talking about. The yare releasing multiple versions apparently. One will be music only, some can do video and games, and so on. Basically instead of making a player that does video, games, music, chat, internet, etc they are making multiple players. Not to mention the lack of iTunes support will drive away most customers. Plus I am betting that the price will be something outrageous.binary visions said: