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Jobs on iPod, iTunes and Zune

Oh come on... wireless ipods make so much sense...think of the iTv,would deffinately go good with a wireless ipod,and a sharing option wouldnt be so bad too.As a uni student the itunes share function was really good for when i wanted to listen to new music that i would have otherwise never listened to_Oh and the whole chick thing...man you have to be pretty lame to try and pull a chick with either of the options lol wireless or wired,tech rarely pulls anything lol
 
nagromme said:
In this era of WTDs (wax-tramsitted diseases), there will be no sharing of my earbuds!
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Perhaps future headphones will have 3 buds: left, right and public? :p

Or (and here's a radical idea) why not put a small speaker on the player itself?
 
One thing I really hate about this Zune thing is the amount of free publicity Microsoft has gotten.

For months on end we've been bombarded with Zune-friendly "news" articles calling it an "iPod killer". Even before Microsoft had a name for it, before they had any sort of design for it, while it was still vaporware, the media kept hammering home, "iPod killer" while seeming to drool over the prospect.

There's STILL no actual product on the store shelves.

It's disgusting, really.
 
motulist said:
Can you imagine what this wireless zuneing feature will be like in the real world? I bet they haven't come up with a way to make the wireless feature only try talking to the zune you want it to, so it'll try talking to any other zune within the proximity of the wireless transmission capability.

You'll be walking down a crowded street in a hurry trying to get your music playing when all of a sudden a box will pop up over your interface "User s8trBoi wants to send you the song "Skate or Die" by "The Snotty Adolescent Band." Do you want to accept?" You think wtf? Then suddenly it disappears and a new box pops up that says "Connection Lost, would you like to try again? [retry] [cancel] [stop] [close zuneing port]" After this keeps happening you click [close zuneing port], which turns off the wireless capability on your zune. Then you can't share songs anymore, and the pref to turn it back on will be buried under a complex interface. So the wireless capability will be used for all of a week for most people.

Then maybe spammers will realize that this is a whole new fertile ground for their sludge. So you'll be walking down the street and suddenly a box will pop up over your interface that says "User "*BUY CHEAP VIAGRA*" wants to send you the song "ONLY 5 DOLLARS PER BOTTLE!!!" by "WWW.WE-R-SPAM.COM" Do you want to accept?"

Zune sounds like a great new world. Thanks Microsoft.
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It took me 5 minutes to read this completely I was laughing so hard. The sad part is that it is so true.
 
Steve Jobs said:
"If we're completely wrong and you completely screw up the entire music market for Mac owners, the sandbox is small enough that you really won't damage the overall music industry very much."
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So, I take this to mean that having iTunes on PC is what's holding up the iTunes movie store from getting the major studios. This quote seems to be code for "the studios are terrified we're not going to get this right".

Which, of course, they're aren't if "right" means uncrackable for the next millennium, which the studios want because they're afraid of the boogieman (who is imaginary) instead of realizing there's profit to be had in them thar bits.
 
whooleytoo said:
Or (and here's a radical idea) why not put a small speaker on the player itself?
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there is one.

but anyways, why would you use it when you could have her on a 2 foot ear bud leash?
 
Jetson said:
One thing I really hate about this Zune thing is the amount of free publicity Microsoft has gotten.

For months on end we've been bombarded with Zune-friendly "news" articles calling it an "iPod killer". Even before Microsoft had a name for it, before they had any sort of design for it, while it was still vaporware, the media kept hammering home, "iPod killer" while seeming to drool over the prospect.

There's STILL no actual product on the store shelves.

It's disgusting, really.
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I totally agree its horrible what a pass the media gives them, its just like how the media treats the Republicans
 
Macrumors said:
Finally, Jobs was asked if he was worried about Microsoft's upcoming media player (Zune) and its "community" features:

In a word, no. I've seen the demonstrations on the Internet about how you can find another person using a Zune and give them a song they can play three times. It takes forever. By the time you've gone through all that, the girl's got up and left! You're much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear. Then you're connected with about two feet of headphone cable.
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Classic! :D

With the iPod, you only need one to share music via the earbuds (or dual jack and second set of earbuds).

With the Zune, the other person must have one too in order to take advantage of the wireless sharing feature.

I don't see it being all that popular.
 
The Zune will die in a very slow and painfull way.
I am sorry for Microsoft. They are just too late and too little in the game.

long live the iPod.:D
 
steve is right, the basic thing is the ipod works well, and it is very simple to use. Itunes helps everything by being a first class program that is always getting frequent updates.

only thing is, apple needs to let record labels/artists come up with variable pricing.

so catalog albums will cost less, and labels can get money from singles.
 
Doctor Q said:
Is there any medical concern with sharing earbuds?
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yes, so girls will use their own earbuds to jack into your iPod.

NewSc2 said:
I don't see ourselves in 10 years still being limited by wired headphones and such. Maybe it'll be easier than the Zune but the idea of beaming a song for somebody else to download/hear is pretty cool to me.
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e...in this case you have to pairing the girl's wireless headphone with your wireless iPod, and the girl may say "oops! its out of battery" :(
 
mdntcallr said:
steve is right, the basic thing is the ipod works well, and it is very simple to use. Itunes helps everything by being a first class program that is always getting frequent updates.

only thing is, apple needs to let record labels/artists come up with variable pricing.

so catalog albums will cost less, and labels can get money from singles.
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I'm hoping for an Indie section.

Really a seperate part of iTS called IndieTunes. All the Indie stuff would be kept seperate from the main catalogs. Bands can sign up, Apple can host the stuff. Apple sells the songs, they make the .10 or so (whatever they make on Label music) and the rest goes to the bands.

All the materials would be voted up or down by iTunes registered users. Stuff that's voted up stays in the catalog, stuff that's voted down to oblivion gets quietly removed from the IndieTunes catalogs. If it's a real, seperate, section then it will not get in the way of their traditional business and not get in the way of people who could care less about Indie bands.

They have the vast majority of the infrastructure in place, just not sure if they could make money. I imagine the bandwidth vs. profit might not support it.

Any thing to cut the legs off the RIAA!
 
all this beaming vs using the ear buds (yours or theirs) reminds me of the great expense NASA went to make a pen that works in space and Zero G. as compared the Russians who used a pencil
 
scott523 said:
Thx for info, I'm about to switch and gotta know that in case crap happens. lol :rolleyes:
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i asked the same thing when i bought my forst mac @ an apple store about a year ago. the dude told me to ask him when it comes up.

it hasn't.
 
I saw the Zune bus today in Oregon. A very well maintained but older model bus with a dark brown wrap with the Zune logo.

Says it all right there. Zune is a recycled product from Toshiba, advertised on refurbished old bus.



lame.
 
Aussie John said:
all this beaming vs using the ear buds (yours or theirs) reminds me of the great expense NASA went to make a pen that works in space and Zero G. as compared the Russians who used a pencil
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That would even be a better story if it was true. It ain't.
 
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