Speaking yesterday at Apple's European conference, Apple Expo in Paris, Jobs said: "Microsoft is copying us with its operating system... Dell's trying to copy us with its hardware. That's fine but we'd like to not give them a map and show them where we're going to go. At least they can follow our taillights." Update: More from Jobs here.
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Member since:2005-06-29
Well, HiMD and MD devices might be a little bigger than yer average off-the-shelff mp3playr, but it also does a whole lot more than yer average mp3 player.
Those mp3 players more often than not cannot record with a decent quality from any source. Also, they are all of questionable build quality. When you buy a MD player/recorder from Sony you assure yourself of having a good quality piece of equipment that lasts a lot longer than any iPod (looking at how many people complain about broken iPods). Also, MD players all have screens, something that cannot be said of the Shuffle. And you can edit fiel information straight from the device itself-- can that be done on an mp3 player or iPod? As far as I can recall, it most often can't be done.
Another plus is obviously that MD has replacable batteries... And the lower-end models use simple AA batteries.
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2005-07-06
thing is that himd have 1GB storage on a magnetoptical media thats about as cheap as a recordable cd.
compare that to a similar capacity flash, the cost is about the same as a cd/dvd-burner...
maybe the size is worth it, but i dont have a problem with the size of md players...