Time Magazine takes a look at RealNetworks’ Rhapsody Music Service in their “Gadget of the Week” section.
“It’s not a gadget, but it may spell the fate of all gadgets, or at least the ones that play music. Real Networks [sic] has launched a complete overhaul of its Rhapsody online music service. A lot of Rhapsody’s new stuff has appeared in other services, and its newest innovations could be called tweaks rather than revolutionary gestures. Still, the whole offering, broken into three tiers, looks pretty tasty,” Wilson Rothman writes for Time Magazine.
Rothman then covers the Rhapsody services that, according to him, “may spell the fate of all gadgets” and then inexplicably concludes, “Do these full-meal-deal services have what it takes to knock Apple’s iTunes off of the mountain? Maybe not yet. But they’re getting closer. If you can find it in you to switch from an iPod Mini to a Creative Zen Micro—and can muster a little patience for the early software that’s not as easy to use as iTunes—you might find something you like.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: How in the hell can Rothman write that Rhapsody “may spell the fate of all gadgets or at least the ones that play music,” and then conclude the article by that saying if you dump your iPod for an also-ran Creative device and are willing put up software that’s not as good as iTunes “you might find something you like?” Does this make any sense? Why not keep the iPod and use the best software, iTunes, wouldn’t you find more to like?
Sheesh, can just anybody plunk down at a word processor and write for Time these days?!
RealNetworks’ Rhapsody will “spell the fate of all music playing gadgets” the same way the Edsel spelled the fate of all gasoline-powered vehicles.
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