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Posted by Kern on November 26, 2005, 3:26 am
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It was a time i'm getting close to Mac ... I just mean that software can
made for better!
M$ should do this for the end user!
In my opinion now the software upgrade is nothing but a caution that you
should buy new handware to speed up for your software^_^.The software
should be more with ideas something like iPod.
That's so.
hel@40th.com wrote:
> Well, let me cut through the propaganda, starting from
> the top. (No paragraph breaks to make you sweat.) WMP
> on an SP is not similar to an ipod. It's similar to
> nothing but WMP itself, and most other SP players (most
> basically work the same, good or bad isn't the point,
> but last count, there were only two others). Second,
> who wants to buy tunes? Really? Who? OK, ipod users,
> obviously, but who with an SP is going to buy tunes to
> put on a phone? Not very many. Good luck with DRM in
> general; you'll need it with WMP. So, encode your own
> tracks from CD. The problem with that is, most phones
> tuck the storage card under the battery, so you can't
> just whip out the card and plug it into a card writer.
> So just copy the tunes over -- right? Use ActiveSlow.
> With an ipod, or practically any other player, you plug
> it into a super-fast USB2 port and you've got a new drive
> letter to copy over to. Why, after nearly a decade, does
> CE not do this simple thing? (o) Video on a portable.
> While it may seem spiffy to play a movie trailer to the
> awe of spectators, it gets to be a drag spending 10 minutes
> encoding every 1 minute to watch. And how many times do
> you plan on watching that 220x180 program anyway? Once?
> I can see someone wanting to pay a buck or two to download
> a missed episode of Lost, sans commercials, but to spend
> 5 hours encoding it from an already saved (somehow) program,
> and still have commercials? If you've got the time, all
> right - go for it. Last, the RokR 100-tune capacity. How
> many with an SP have more than 100 tunes (500 MB) on it?
> Not many. How many of those RokRs will even bother using
> the iTunes music store? Not many. They'll do what most
> do, plug it in and download (or is that upload). The "MS
> concept"? What concept is that? DRM that only works
> when stored to main memory, and won't work anymore when
> moved to a storage card (need wmp10, and hope nothing goes
> wrong)? And one where you have to use ActiveSlow. If you
> have the time - go for it. What a concept! hah
>
> S- [Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:57:27 -0700] propagandized this:
> >Mostly because your phone is two generations old. Current Smartphones with
> >Media Player 10 have the option of very similar experience as iTunes, but
> >with the bonus of being able to select from a number of music vendors,
> >including Napster, Walmart Music, and others. The iPod just caught up with
> >the video experience that PPC and Smartphones have had for some time now.
> >While Apple iTunes locks you into the iPod for playback. OK there's the
> >Rokr, but can we really count that with the 100 song limit? ;) The MS
> >concept provides a wide choice in players. The same tunes downloaded for
> >your MP10 equipped Smartphone, PPC or Portable Media Center can also be
> >played on your Samsung, Creative or Dell (etc.) media players as well.
> >
> >I can't say the MS experience is as seamless and simple as Apple's, but it
> >comes at the expense of consumer choice. Funny that this comes from a
> >company that in 1984 made a big splash throwing off the shackles of
> >corporate regimentation.
>
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