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Not sure if this has been posted before ...
CNNMoney has an article entitled, 'Gates unveils his Urge.' From the piece: 'Bill Gates aims to take over your living room and late Wednesday he unveiled a new music service and new software to do it. Using an appearance with Justin Timberlake, the Microsoft chairman debuted a new music service, Urge, to directly compete with the iTunes music store and interface. Urge launches with over 2 million tracks for purchase or as part of an all-you-can eat subscription, an option the iTunes music store doesn't have. The offering will include exclusive material from MTV.' Begin the living room wars we must.
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for the time being it wont be a succes because about 83% of music players are ipods
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Yeah, M$ will have to release their own music player to compete.
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a music player has to be cool and ms cant get cool right. Sony's new one is good but it aint no ipod
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Originally Posted by JoshuaZ
Why do we care?
Did I ask you to care ?
I posted a bit of news, not an excuse for a bunch of people to jump on me for it, but because its news ... OK
As for 83% of music players being Ipods .. thats just crap. And anyway .. 99% of statistics are made up 
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Originally Posted by raymond
As for 83% of music players being Ipods .. thats just crap. And anyway .. 99% of statistics are made up
Well, it was 82% last August, so 83% doesn't sound unreasonable. if anything, it's on the low side.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news...d=a58iozj_2jXM
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at my school, I only know 2 people who have a non-ipod mp3 player. Pretty much everyone has an ipod.
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First off... I read that three out of every four people comprise 75% of the population.
Secondly, I don't dismiss this new about MS so quickly. If Apple doesn't play the very delicate game of taking over the living room right, this could be a problem. Do I think Apple will fumble? No, not really. Does this news about MS give pause. Sure. We can’t tale for granted the lead that the iPod gives Apple, and in extension, us (as Mac faithful). Apple must continue to play its cards just right and make as many allies in the entertainment industry as possible, and that ain't easy as the more powerful the person in showbiz, the bigger a dick they are.
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