Mp3 - Why the Apple phone will fail, and fail badly

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[Portable MP3] The Register - Comment The hype is reaching fever-pitch, and the odds are still stacked that Apple will announce a device combining the functionality...

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 [Blog.wired.com] Listening Post: The Future of Online Music: Why Closed Platforms Will Fail .Apple has no need to open its music to other mp3 players, .

 [Pogue.blogs.nytimes.com] Pogue’s Posts - Technology - New York Times Blog: It’s the job of journalists to over-hype and over-sensationalize ALL news, .I feel Apple promotes this attitude”¦ the iPod”¦no other MP3 player is capable .

 [Podcastingnews.com] Podcasting News » iTunes Sales Not Plummeting - Just Analysts ...: After Christmas, there’s a spike in iTunes purchases, as new iPod owners try out their new devices. This is reflected in Forrester’s report, but it would be a stretch to read much more into their numbers.

[Macalope.com] The Macalope » Blog Archive » A new low in iPhone speculation assery: James: I’d rather have a phone with a good UI for the half-dozen-or-so things I actually care about, than one (oh, like my current Moto v551) that has an awful UI and can’t even manage to transfer an mp3 file without claiming it’s “corrupt” and can’t be played (and yes, I have, in fact, spent quite some time with the interwubs working on that, and no, it simply doesn’t work, no matter what bitrate and encoding is used).

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Posted at December 25, 2006 01:58 AM