“Along with the great American novel, a second World Cup for the England football team, the ‘iPod Killer’ is shaping up to be a typical great unresolved quest,” Alex Watson reports for Custom PC.
Watson reports, “It’s not for want of trying though – Microsoft in particular has made plenty of attempts to cut Apple’s white MP3 player down to size. It seems the company is now putting all its faith in Zune and Windows Mobile, with Portable Media Center devices – remmber them? Slightly less cumbersome versions of fully fledged Media Center PCs – are being officially killed off.”
“The sharp eyed team at Ars Technica have spotted a newsgroup posting… from Microsoft’s David Bono confirming PMCs are going the way of the dodo,” Watson reports.
Watson reports, “We only ever reviewed one, Creative’s Zen PMC, and derided its clunky, DRM ridden approach and beefy size. Funnily enough, most US reviews have echoed these very same complaints in their reviews of the Zune, and with Microsoft quiet on the device’s actual sales figures, it seems doubtful Steve Jobs is losing any sleep just yet.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “BustingTheSkullsOfIdiots” for the heads up.]
“We think this is going to be one of the hot devices for Christmas 2004.” – James Bernard, Microsoft Product Manager for Portable Media Center, via Reuters, March 18, 2004.
Think Different.
Microsoft had a Portable Media Center?
Bernard probably meant that it overheats. Great marketing speak!
Just talked to Hiro Nakamura. Turns out, same thing happens to Zune.
“We think this is going to be one of the hot devices for Christmas 2004.” – James Bernard
Yea, “hot” as in “hot steamin’ pile”.
“Along with the great American novel”
‘Breakfast of Champions’?
‘Catch-22’?
‘A Year of MDN Feedback’? (ink still drying)
Maybe Hiro can go back in time and stop bad man? Save cheerleader, save the world!
funnily?????
What a lame name.
Replacing with a more lame one.
“We think this is going to be one of the hot devices for Christmas 2004.”
Or not……
“Microsoft had a Portable Media Center?”
Maybe he is makinf refrence to Windows Moble’s Media Center.
@ bIZARRO bALLMER
Much to my own chagrin, ‘funnily’ is indeed a real word.
Wow, my first article. Woot! Or something.
and now he does:
http://www.worldlearning.org/bios/bio_vp_communications.html
Check this out!
It features one of those players Media player?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6625279.stm
Enjoy!!
Also this one featuring the iphone.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/nesid_6360000/newsid_6360000/6360077.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm
Doesn’t the ‘Think different’ Ad warm your heart?
Did you ever fart so hard you ended up in another zip code?
Muhahahahahahahahah!!!
1. Buy 7 Shares of AAPL @ $105
2. Wait for June 15
3. Sell 7 Shares of AAPL for $200
4. Use Profits to buy iPhone
5. Write SJ a nice thank you letter.
@ HOW TO GET A FREE iPHONE!
I’ve used this same technique to buy my last 3 Macs. =)
@ChrissyOne
This is my first time.
Did you write a nice thank you letter?
@ ChrissyOne and HOW TO GET A FREE iPHONE!
Don’t forget to pay your taxes on those capital gains.
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Seriously though, AAPL cloased @ 106.88. Sweet.
“Seriously though, AAPL cloased @ 106.88. Sweet.”
Based on that comment, my guess is, you don’t have any.
Portable Media Center? You mean the iPhone? Right.
@JadisOne
ah taxes are for pussies. I will chuckle as I write that iPhone tax off while eating out at a Olive Garden.
MDW: ‘Medical’ as in “Or maybe I’ll write it off as simply a MEDICAL expense. Those little pens on Windows Mobil Phones are bad for my joints.”
When will Steve Ballmer go????
What exactly was the difference between the PMC and the UMPC? The similarities are obvious: they both suck…