Comments on: Walkman Outsells iPod in Japan–Sort Of

By: Mac_to_Ipod

Mac_to_Ipod — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:25:27 +0000

Nice!!..good to see that the Zune and Walkman are healthy competition to the Ipod. Now I'm starting to remember the times when walkman was the dominant music player, time sure has changed very fast.

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services.mail2web.com | Gadget Blog | — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:47:36 +0000

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Paid Content : paidContent Quick Hits: 9.4.09 — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:00:57 +0000

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By: Mac Beach

Mac Beach — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:01:26 +0000

I have purchased three iPods (never the top-line ones though) and given them as gifts. As I don’t like wearing ear-buds in a car and no longer commute on a bus or rail system there is almost never a time when wearing headphones is all that desirable. hence my total usage time for all my iPod devices is measured in minutes, not hours.

My Kindle has turned into a surprising good carry around the house “boom-box” though.

I guess my point is that I wish these tech companies would focus more on making devices with useful properties (device size, screen size, external speakers or not, daylight viewable or not, medium to long battery life, wireless features, and so on) and let them get used as users want to use them.

More and more these devices, small as they are, are general purpose computers and whether they are used for music, reading, video or blog editing is simply a matter of software (and hopefully not just hardware maker software).

Yet, it still seems that it is as if the industry was selling a desktop computer but calling it a “printer driver”. In this paradigm you would need one desktop computer to drive your printer, another to hold your files, another to hook up to a network.

The most important high-tech tool has become a bag to carry all these things in.