AC

Richmond, VA

Strategy Consultant

One contributor from the UK states, "my Sony MusicClip is now 6 and a half years old, how long did it take for the iPod shuffle to appear? How I laughed when the "video" iPod was hailed as breakthrough when my ancient iPaq can play videos on a screen twice the size.

And your ancient iPaq had over 150 television programmes that could be downloaded quickly on your iPaq, right?
Or at least over the years they've added content to the offering, right? Just as Sony made it dead easy, six years ago to put content on your Musiclip, that wasn't from a Sony artist, right?
Or they've developed that offering right?

Wrong.

The point is that iTunes and iPod and iLife, and the rest of the Apple hardware and software all work together, simply and seamlessly.

MS is so far away from simple and seamless and they'll be competing with their own customers (Sony, Samsung, etc.) when they come out with Zune.

Good luck with that, MS.

By the way, 'Zune," when you pronounce the "u" as the "u" in tribune means "f*cked" in Hebrew.