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Microshite are only putting this story out with a view to suggesting to gullible and naive people that the iPod is too expensive. I'd like to see a Microsoft portable music player released at $50, because no doubt it would be shit, and hopefully it would encourage more people to break free from the herd and support a company that innovates rather than uses it's financial muscle to buy/settle litigation for products/ideas stolen from others.
Equally, their policy of slagging off Apple's rights management approach to digital content as opposed to their own which they claim offers more choice and greater freedom(what the ****), is just ludicrous.
The bottom line is that is that Microrubbish feel obliged to detract from Apple's success because they are worried that their ill-gotten dominance is under threat, and as usual they will try to muscle any competitor out of the market.
I can see why some people might feel that Apple hardware is too expensive, even though the reality is quite the opposite, maybe because Apple does seem to target a different market sector the average PC vendor.
Would the release of Mac OS X for the PC help Apple's market share? I think it would and with the superb applications that OS X sports, Apple has a much better offering than M$.
Of course I would wish that Apple continue to offer it's own hardware were this to become a reality since I and of course millions of current Mac users would no doubt still wish to buy our whole computing solution from Apple.
Competition in the hardware sphere is something Apple already faces from the multitude of PC vendors who have little choice but to install an inferior windoze OS by default.
Apple should be bold.
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