Comments on: Creative wants to make Apple pay

Maker of rival MP3 players says it owns patent for iPod music navigation and plans to "pursue aggressively" royalties.

[kwillson]

Ipod sound is not best sound

If you try some decent headphones you will see that ipod's sound is not the best. I have sony's in-ear $40 models and I would recomend creative, iriver and yes even the dell dj over the ipod. Ive tested all three with my headphones and shure e2 in-ears. Creative and Dell use soundblaster technology. It doesn't take a genius to realize those advantages. I have nothing against ipods. They have a better user interface than my iriver. It is crazy that there are other factors than the bitrate to produce good sound. Anyway I chose iriver based on sound first because that is the primary function of my mp3 player.

[caitlin22477]

Well....

I was talking to the mannager of The source and he said that i pods are getting old now and the new things are creatives or irivers so i got a creative ...i had and i pod before and it wouldnt work...my friend had a i pod nano and it crashed her moms lap top! They got a creative Zen micro and it worked in 15 minutes! so i got one. its awesome!i pods are cool but kinda crappy . GO ZEN!

[faytlnd]

Bose? Best sound system? Is that a joke?

Thats a terrible argument considering that bose is known as one of the biggest jokes of the audio world. Go check ot htguide or avsforums and see what they say about Bose. They are overpriced, and overmarketed pieces of garbage. They pay for product placement at Best Buy, run infomercials, and price their speakers way too high, and make everyone believe they are good, when they are completely ripping you off.

[cjoe42]

NEWS FLASH: Sim Wong Hoo files patent for Hot Air!

Funny that Creative had to wait until it had two terrible financial quarters to file this suit. After "declaring war on the iPod" and taking an ass whipping in the process, I guess he decided it is better to become a patent troll rather than an innovator. Rather than accepting second place in the MP3 market (which isn't at all a bad place to be), Mr. Hoo decided to attack Apple head on while not paying attention to his other rivals who have now dropped Creative to third place in market share. Opps!! Now he has to deal with a patent counter suit by Apple, loads of unsold inventory, and aggressive deep pocketed competitors on his heels who plan on further erroding his market position. Looks like Mr. Hoo needs to quickly file a patent on that commodity he seems to have plenty of, hot air!!