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Originally Posted by Elgin Clock
Zune vz iPod. Who will come out on top in the end? Zune had Wi-Fi even before iPod thought of putting it on a media player fyi... & to top it all off ,the source code for the current Zune shows capabilities yet to be even used with the current hardware/software combos.
Looks like Apple has some serious competition, and with the next generation of Zune out soon MS vs Apple will take on a whole new twist.
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I hate sounding like a Apple fanboy*, but I like the facts. Apple had filed for patents using Wi-fi and similar wireless music sharing capabilities months before the Zune came out. And with the new iPods running Mac OS X operating system, there's plenty of capability there for new applications and features.
Before Apple came out with their new iPods, I would have agreed that Microsoft was ahead of them the hard-drive-music-player market in features. But now it looks like Apple has leapfrogged ahead again. But in the end, all that really matters is the intense competition between the two, because that ensures that each side will constantly keep innovating to make better products. (Regardless of which of the two one may prefer.)
The last thing I'd want is to have another [practical 100% monopoly] Microsoft (from about 2000 until 2004), before Mac OS 10.3 had begun to set the bar higher for operating systems, before the easy-to-use Ubuntu Linux had been introduced, before OpenOffice has begun to take on a double-digit market share in the enterprise and business markets, and before Mozilla Firefox had shaken up the browser market. As long as no company controls more than about 80% of the market for a particular product/service, the intense competition will usually ensure lots of innovation.
* I generally like Apple products, but I'm not fanatical about it. I don't raise bias towards Apple to an zealous art form. If there is anything that I could be called fanatical about, it's robotics and FIRST. 