Comments on: Will iPod suffer fate of the Mac?

Apple critics again take aim at the company's "go it alone" strategy--but CEO Steve Jobs seems comfortable with risks.

THIS ARTICLE IS WRONG!!!!

why does everyone say that when you buy an ipod you can only
shop in one store?!!
Nothing is furthur from the truth...

1. you can buy a CD from your local record store and load onto
your ipod in wav, aac, or mp3 format.
2. And you can download mp3's from any download service (say
emusic.com) and load it onto an ipod.
3. And you can shop at itunes.

If there is some other way you can buy music that is not
compatible I challenge the author to find it and post it here.
Because this article is simply wrong!!!!!

Typical CNET FUD

Apple has a great earnings report, and just like clockwork CNET
has to write an article to counteract any positive news. Typical
MS drones.

And as for Apple turning down Real's offer: The things only been
news two days. Apple wouldn't tip their hand if they were going
to go forward with this. Silence from Apple is nothing more than
par for the course. If these writers knew anything about Apple
they'd know that Apple keeps strategy tight lipped.

[godofbiscuits--2008]

Pathetic.

Why isn't CNET asking Microsoft to opensource WMA and the
DRM?????

must be that conflict of interest, cnet being owned by intel, and
all.

[Ipod Apple]

conflict of interest

http://www.analogstereo.com/turntable_linn_karik.htm

[jbelkin]

RA - buffering ... buffering ... buffering ... um DEAD

RA is the one that is the dinosaur. RA was useful when we mostly had dialup and needed compression - so much so that we were willing to put up with watching 7 frame rate and 800 ads packed into a 2" viewing window ... not to mention the famous buffering ... buffering ... buffering ...

And their credibility with mac users & apple? - it took them 7 tries to deliver a player that wouldn't crash upon launch - gee, you want us to lower to your standards?

Um, who exactly are you again?

Not only - what have you done for us lately - but what have you EVER done for us? Not just mac users but all internet users?

All of your technology has been about creating a closed locked DRM with expensive encoders and now that you are third in a two player race - suddenly you complain that others have a locked system that won't let you in?

Maybe you should've saved some of those 800 ads money for something useful - for now, you will be remembered as part of the beginning dark ages of the internet - you are the "sov's," out of step with the times and like your 'buffering ... buffering ... buffering speeds' - too Balkanized literally and figuratively for this century. Buh-bye.

[198775425444042216790779840523]

Mac Fate?

I hope so. Macs are the best, most productive computer
platforms out there.
Do you question BMWs market share...? Microsoft is going out of
style. People are beginning to realize that Microsoft has been
giving them the shaft for years.
CNET, do yourself a favor an hire some talented people...you
know, people that actually do research before they release an
article.
You know...a journalist.

[dolfox]

CNET CAN YOU PLEASE STOP BEING SO TRANSPARENT!!!

this article is so absurd, it's trash. Why is CNET such an advocate
for mediocrity? Everyone assumes that once Microsoft turns its
attention to a market, its game over for everone else. And
notice, Microsoft won't take over with a superior file type or
music player, just by bullying around its monopoly to cram a
half-a**ed version of the real thing down the public's throat.

This thinly veiled threat to Apple to comply for the benefit of
one company is pathetic.

CNET...if you can't see your way to fairly reporting on Apple, just
stop...ignore Apple instead of straight up lying about them and
trying to pass propaganda as legitimate reporting...LIARS

[Ipod Apple]

superior file type

http://www.analogstereo.com/turntable_linn_axis.htm

[calpundit]

Read the article, folks

The headline and sub-head are not only ridiculous, but they do not at all reflect what the article is really about.

If you read the entire piece, it offers a variety of reasons why Jobs is smart to show Glasser the door. Most of the analysts quoted take Apple's side (not hard, considering that Apple's making money while Real is circling the drain).

I came away from the piece more convinced than ever that Apple is right to take a pass on this "offer". I'm a total Apple partisan, but I thought the piece was, if anything, tilted Apple's way.

If you want to get angry at someone, blame the headline writers.

[leoofborg]

Typical CNET Yellow Journalism

They must be desperate for eyeballs. As some readers
mentioned before the title and 1st paragraph of this 'story' have
little bearing on the rest of it.

The rest of the content is parroted from other news services.
Way to cut and paste, CNET. You're as dead as Real.

CNET = CNN = Real. So die already, you are so 1995.

Real Networks CEO...

Here is a quarter to buy a clue.

Calling Apple a closed architecture nowadays is like the pot
calling the kettle black. Sorry Mr. Glaser it's your over priced,
bloated piece of software that is on closed up architecture.

Should Apple open the iPod, maybe someday, but they are
hardly going to sink because of this issue. Apple was smart they
opened up to let Windows users play as well.

iTunes rocks compared to your over priced (I wrote this already)
bloated junk on a OS that crashes, has major security flaws and
is based on CLOSED architecture. And know I am not all Apple, I
administrate a OS Server bsed networks as well as Windows.

Sorry... but the article is wrong last time I checked (A few
seconds ago) my OS (10.3.3.) is based on OPEN architecture,
Unix, not crap windows, maybe if Mr. Glaser wrote a better
Carbon version for OS X and not charge an arm and a leg to
watch CNN on the web Real Player would be a better product, I
never liked it anyway. Just my 2 cents.



Go. Unix, Go Panther OS X get a real OS baby... :)

Unix based what? that's not open?

What they heck is the author smoking, Apple has come along
way, opened thier latest OS based off of MAch kernal (BSD) on a
elegant (yet somewhat locked down gui) but the rest is as open
as the outside world. Not like crappy windowz and Real Player
for the PC

[Ipod Apple]

latest OS

http://www.analogstereo.com/turntable_stanton_c304_stanton_c303.htm