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Bill Gates sees mobile phones overtaking iPods |
axxxr
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Via: Reuters
Microsoft founder Bill Gates sees mobile phones overtaking MP3s as the top choice of portable music player, and views the raging popularity of Apple's iPod player as unsustainable,he told a German newspaper.
"As good as Apple may be, I don't believe the success of the iPod is sustainable in the long run," he said in an interview published in Thursday's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
"You can make parallels with computers: Apple was very strong in this field before, with its Macintosh and its graphics user interface like the iPod today and then lost its position," Gates said.
We'll see... my money will always be on Apple.
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fatreg
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that wouldnt be because he makes windows mobile would it??
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axxxr
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Might have something to do with that.......
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@axxxr: :-) not se?
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DSF
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Bill gates is right.. Go go microsoft
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axxxr
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Thats where Apple will introduce the ipod phone and bill will be left standing again.
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If the ipod phone will be as ugly as the one i've seen (posted by u axxxr a while back) then no thanks! I prefer a smartphone with great extensibility and great multimedia capabilities (and also compact, yes devices with windows mobile) rather then a simple limited multimedia phone. Plus apple dont have experiences with mobile phones
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axxxr
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I somehow doubt very much that apple will limit itself to the motorola itunes phones shown a while back....the market will no doubt get very competative for apple so they will eventually broaden their horizons and start converging ipods with phones and maybe other devices.
Your correct in saying that apple has no experience when it comes to phones,but was'nt it the same for them when they introduced ipod?..That was virgin territory for them and now they dominate.since music phones will be the way forward now,apple will have no choice but to bring out a phone/music player to keep up with market trends.
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slattery69
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apple may even decided not to build the phone themselevs but sell itunes licenses off to all the companies and let the likes of se nokia or whoever incorparte there technology into the phone |
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I think Bill's right. The format of a single-function pocket-size MP3 player is unsustainable. In an age where convergence is the buzzword, the iPod concept does not offer enough functionality. The one device that seems to be stealing the march on all others in terms of convergence is the mobile phone. It stands to reason that if your phone can (as well as being a phone) be your music and audio player, remote control, PDA/computer, TV, navigation system, why are you going to find room in your pocket for a device that only does one of these things, and not substantially better??
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Jools
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Wasn't it Bill Gates who allegedly said back in 1981, "640k should be anough for anybody". So I wouldn't take too much notice of his foresight!
Of course there will be convergence, there already is. The iPod has never just been a music player, it also stores your Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Alarms, Notes, a few simple Games, the photo edition stores 1000's of Photos, and its a portable hard-disk for any files you choose. It's essentially a simple organiser as well as music player.
And there will always be a market for simple gadgets, not everybody needs everything even todays mobile phones and music players offer,and making complex technology simple for the average Joe is where Apple excels. You can still buy dozens of different personal audio cassette players 20+ years after they came out, and they've hardly changed in features.
Bill's just a bit sour that Apple is getting so much positive press attention lately with the iPod and Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (while Windows users will have to wait at least another year for Longhorn which has already been cut-down from what was promised), his tablet PCs have so far been a failure and Windows is riddled with security bugs and viruses and getting increasingly negative press attention.
He's bound to say such things just to make himself feel better, and lets face it nobody knows what Apple is working on in it's R&D labs at the moment.
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fatreg
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your mac radar is worknig overtime!
sure its not about to crash and burn?? 
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amnesia
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the only way I could see a Phone surpassing an iPod is if it had a changeable drive.
People like the change their phones now and then.
The iPod isn't an MP3 player anymore it's an icon. It's fashion.
Bill's an idiot. He should have said "the mobile phone will surpass the MP3 player"
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fatreg
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the worlds first trillionnaire!
hes not that stupid!
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themarques
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I think you guys actually missed the speach that Steve Jobs made a few days ago..he himself dropped that the ipods stance looks like its coming to and end (in not so many words...)..but alot of people believe that has to do with the fact that the Motorola Itunes phone is on it way...
And also apple introduced 4.8 Itunes..which has video playback in the small little window...no a few people tried transferring those videos to there ipod and got the error message "Not compatible with this player"...which could mean nothing but could also mean that the video ipod is on its way..or they planning on dropping those videos on to the phone...
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