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Monday, 21 February 2005 |
Gateway's
MP3 player lacks iPod's fame
Buffalo News - Buffalo,NY,USA
Just about everybody involved with reporting about the computer industry thinks
it's great news that Apple Computer Inc.'s latest quarterly earnings quadrupled
because of the public's rush to buy iPods.
Not Apple's superb G5 tower computers, mind you, but iPods. Not Apple's
certifiably beautiful new flat-panel iMacs, but iPods. Not those
student's-dream-come-true iBook laptops or PowerBooks bursting with displays in
millions of colors, but iPods.
Not since a company named Wham-O introduced the Hula Hoop has a brand name so
quickly became part of the English language as iPod.
So today's sermonette must point out that the Apple-resurrecting iPod wasn't, by
far, the first digital music player to mate with a computer, and it's not even
the unquestionably best digital music player on the market today. A plethora of
players with great features abound from blue-chip outfits like Sony, Dell,
Samsung, Rio, Creative, Archos, Phillips, RCA, et al.
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