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• Steve Wozniak on the iPod

  The Telegraph’s recent interview with Steve Wozniak has gotten a lot of play online today for some reason. I don’t see what the big deal is. He predicts the imminent death of the company's most popular product, the iPod. "The iPod has sort of... Posted Oct 08 2008, 05:22 PM by pthurrott with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Zune, Windows Mobile, iPod, Digital media, Commentary

• About the Zune update, today's Apple news

  So I'm in Redmond this week, as you may know. Yesterday, Microsoft was forced to prematurely announce the details of its upcoming Zune 3 platform when Fry's Electronics leaked details about the new devices and software features. (And here's... Posted Sep 09 2008, 11:06 AM by pthurrott with | with 167 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, Zune, iTunes, iPod, Digital media

• AntiPod

  There’s no new info here for Zune fans per se, but I’m linking to this for one reason only: It appeared in yesterday’s New York Times Magazine, which goes out as part of the Sunday paper as is decidedly aimed at non-technical people. My guess? This will... Posted Aug 11 2008, 03:45 AM by pthurrott with | with 36 comment(s) Filed under: Zune, iPod

• GameStop Plans to Stop Selling Microsoft's Zune Media Player

  The Wall Street Journal : Videogame retailer GameStop plans to stop selling Microsoft's Zune media player due to insufficient demand. GameStop's already pulled its stock of Zunes from its stores. The media players will be available via GameStop's... Posted May 23 2008, 06:48 PM by pthurrott with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: Zune, iPod

• Napster Launches World’s Largest MP3 Store Featuring 6 Million Tracks

  Napster becomes the second online music service (after Amazon MP3) to offer DRM-free tracks from all of the major recording companies: Napster, the pioneer of digital music, today announced the launch of the world’s largest and most comprehensive... Posted May 20 2008, 11:46 AM by pthurrott with | with 16 comment(s) Filed under: Zune, iTunes, iPod, Digital media, Content

• Amazon Gains Share of Shrinking Paid Music Market

  NYT's Saul Hansell writes another great blog post , this time about Amazon's recent gains in the digital music market: NPD’s annual survey of Internet users found that 10 percent of the music they acquired last year came from paid downloads... Posted Apr 18 2008, 10:30 AM by pthurrott with | with 20 comment(s) Filed under: Zune, iTunes, iPod, Digital media, Content

• Zune 2 battery life revealed

  Microsoft's Cesar Menendez publishes battery life info for the Zune 2 devices on the Zune Insider blog: Ok, we've finished testing the battery life, and this is what we found: Zune 4 and Zune 8 Audio: up to 24 hours Video: up to 4 hours Zune 80... Posted Oct 18 2007, 09:02 PM by pthurrott with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Zune, iPod

• Why the iPod can be conquered

  Richard Siklos at Fortune Magazine tackles an increasingly common point of view : That Apple's dominance of the digital media market could be quite temporary, thanks to the company's arrogance, poor relations with partners, and utter disregard... Posted Oct 08 2007, 09:14 AM by pthurrott with | with 333 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, Zune, iPod

• SanDisk

  The Los Angeles Times has an interesting story about an underappreciated and often forgotten player in the portable media player market. SanDisk is realistically the only company that's legitimately challenging Apple right now, but they're also... Posted Oct 07 2007, 11:48 AM by pthurrott with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Zune, iPod, Digital media

• A Zune follow-up

  In my last post, I discussed some thoughts about the Zune. I was interested to see that a Bloomberg article (which is clearly written by someone unfamiliar with technology) has bolstered my thoughts about Zune market share (I had sort of roughly figured... Posted Oct 03 2007, 10:35 AM by pthurrott with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Zune, iPod

• Some thoughts on Zune 2.0

  So I wrote up a pretty thorough update on the new Zune devices last night but I'd like to chime in with some off-the-cuff thoughts this morning that are based solely on a single Microsoft briefing and some press packet photographs. I like what they're... Posted Oct 03 2007, 08:56 AM by pthurrott with | with 41 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, Zune, iTunes, iPod, Digital media, Media Center

• Amazon MP3 store goes live

  Amazon's previously announced MP3 music download service is live. Dubbed amazonmp3 , the service offers DRM-free MP3 music downloads. Nothing exceptional yet, and sort of the lame selection found on Wal-Mart's similar store. Still, a step in the... Posted Sep 25 2007, 12:08 PM by pthurrott with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Zune, iTunes, iPod, Digital media