October 23rd, 2006
Happy 5th Birthday, iPod
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
My wife said, “You’re kidding, right?”, but no, I’m not. It’s been five years to the day that the iPod was introduced. Seems like it’s been around forever, and as we know, it’s taken over the majority of the MP3 player market.
Difficult as it may be to fathom, it was only five years ago that Apple, long known as a cutting-edge computer company, launched a product that enabled people to carry their entire music collections in their pockets. The easily-navigated personal jukebox transformed the way people listen to music.Now, there are roughly 70 million of them out there. Source: CBS News
We Say: Apple is clearly the market leader, but it needs to continue innovating to keep the lead. As we all know, the Zune is due out soon, and while that most likely isn’t going to make much a dent short-term, Microsoft has one huge marketing machine.
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October 23rd, 2006 at 7:43 pm
Alice Hill’s Real Tech News - Independent Tech» Blog Archive » Another 5th Birthday This Week — Happy Birthday, Windows XP says:
[…] The iPod had its 5th birthday earlier this week, but there’s another 5th birthday as well. This week, Windows XP turns five. And despite its maligned image, especially security-wise. there’s no denying it was a major step up from Windows NT, 2000 and 98 / Me. For a child, one’s fifth birthday is an exciting time, full of precious moments and limitless promise. For an operating system, coming up to one’s fifth birthday is a different matter entirely. By the time they reach this milestone, most operating systems have long since been retired or replaced by the Next Big Thing, often an updated version of themselves. For Windows XP, which is celebrating its fifth birthday this week, the big question is this: why has it taken so long for Microsoft to come up with a successor? Source: Ars Technica […]
October 30th, 2006 at 8:47 am