“Yahoo!’s next to fall on its music sword with this new music device, the Sansa Connect. The downloading of music wirelessly, something that Microsoft does too, will make a splash as still one more tech company tries to overthrow Apple,” Jim Cramer writes for RealMoney. “It will have similar results as all the other challengers. Why?”
Cramer writes, “The morning paper gives you the best reason why. Check out this one for irony. On the front page of The Wall Street Journal’s B section, the headline is simple: ‘A New Wireless Player Hopes to Challenge iPod.'”
“That’s all well and good. Yahoo!’s got a big installed base. SanDisk, its partner, has some clout,” Cramer writes. “But then turn to the back page. You will see something that tells you about the success, or lack thereof, of this new venture: A heart made up of iPods and two lines — ‘100 million iPods sold. Thanks to music lovers everywhere.'”
Cramer writes, “It’s called ‘installed base.’ It tells you all you need to know about where Yahoo! stands, which is nowhere.”
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iPhone is the iPod killer.
So, how much does San Disk lose on any of these failed ventures? Seems like they’ll partner with any failure.
M@c
> You know…someday the iPod will cease to be the big man on campus. In fact, it will cease to exist at all at some point.
I’m not so sure that the iPod will ever cease to exist – it will just change to the latest technology. Already it’s evolved from HD-based to RAM-based.
This is similar to the car industry. The modern day Toyota Corolla (for an example) has nothing in common with the first incarnations except the product aim (personal transportation) and name. So it may be with the iPod. It will still be a personal media player and be called iPod, but will evolve further as newer technologies are developed.
MW:two – as in there are two technologies used in current iPods (spooky!)
pwned is a mis-typing of owned. P is right next to O. It’s an inside joke to gamers.
Remember when everyone was referring to “teh snap” of OS X? It lacked teh snap of OS9. It was a mis-type that propogated itself as an actual term.
it will just change to the latest technology
Unless the iPod name dates it irrevocably, as Victrola does, which is even worse than phonograph. The iPod will date this generation as surely as “transistor radio” dates an earlier,
NeverFade, I use FSCK to bypass profanity filters. But only on forums where I expect the geek-quotient can bear the load. Not that many years back, if you got caught with a fsck while trying to reboot one of your company’s servers, you typically said “F*ck ME!” Why? Because a file system check could take minutes – sometimes many of them – your boss would just as soon you not use for the added security. This is actually much less of a problem in these days of RAID, when systems can rebuild a disk with no down-time – but it used to be a problem. They used to be effectively synonymous.
On Topic: Cramer is a Mac Advocate – or maybe a Mac Fanatic. The anti-thesis of a Dvorak. Except he doesn’t need to fish for bogus “hits”. The Yahoo!/Sansa thing sounds like it could potentially do more business than the Zune, taking some business from Apple in the process. There really ARE people out there who dislike Apple as much as many of us dislike MS.
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@NeverFade
NeverFade, come back, we loves yer….
Asking an innocent question can get you all kinds of responses, filter through the offensive posts and often a helpful soul might offer an answer. cough … cough.
If not, and you use a Mac, Safari and a mouse with more than one button – try this to get answers to tricky words or sentences.
> Right click the word or sentence and select “Search in Google” this will take you straight into Google search with the results for the word or words, from here you might, after selecting a link or perhaps many links find an to answer your search.
If you only have a single click mouse, try this
> Hold down the Control button on the keyboard and then click on the word ( or a highlighted selection of words) and this will generate the same Google search response.
Pursuing this line of self-education might eliminate distasteful answers on posts, and after a bit of good old research – the “Truth.”
I am sure other peeps will explain about other browsers and OS.
Jim Cramer is no Cosmo Kramer.
Just my $0.02