My initial reaction is, here you go, Apple has done it again. It's a feat of tremendous industrial design ... and they've maintained all the things that make the iPod good. ... They've taken the best of iPod and made it smaller and improved both style and substance. |
My initial reaction is, here you go, Apple has done it again. It's a feat of tremendous industrial design to be able to shrink the iPod to this size, and they've maintained all the things that make the iPod good -- form, functionality, the interface -- they've taken the best of iPod and made it smaller and improved both style and substance. |
The dispute is about the extent that [Sony BMG and Warner] have not licensed their music for [Apple's] Japanese services, which is significant, considering Japan is the second biggest market after the U.S.. It's a question of existing contracts versus future contracts. |
The obvious glitch is always the quality of the service, especially if you are depending on someone else to provide the service, ... If the service is poor, it reflects on Nintendo and McDonald's. Fundamentally, that's the biggest risk. |
The obvious glitch is always the quality of the service, especially if you are depending on someone else to provide the service. If the service is poor, it reflects on Nintendo and McDonald's. Fundamentally, that's the biggest risk. |
The Shuffle underwhelmed me. It has not been a runaway hit the way the iPod, the Mini, and the way I think the nano is going to be. |
VCs aren't going to fund something that will extend copyright infringement, |
VCs aren't going to fund something that will extend copyright infringement. |
What we're seeing right now is most likely stage one, with other details to come in the near future. |
You're really talking about an entirely different demographic that Sony is trying to pull in and get to use the system. |
You're talking still -- as much hype as there has been -- about a nascent market. Do you really want to start raising prices on a market that is a drop in the bucket [of overall revenue]? |