iTunes vs mTunes
p2pnet.net News:-
Thursday, September 2, is M Day in Never-Never Land.
That’s when Microsoft will unleash its answer to Apple’s iTunes.
So says the Associated Press here.
“With Thursday’s planned debut, the software maker will become the latest competitor in a market experts say is still in its infancy – but one that is expected to grow considerably more popular in the coming years,” says the story.
It would have to.
In the real world of online music, the corporate music sites don’t even register.
They’re offering around 750,000 tracks supplied by the Big Four Music cartel. The buyers are a scant few (relatively speaking) people who think it’s acceptable to be ripped off at a dollar a go by the music industry.
In the meanwhile, upwards of eight million people are logged onto the p2pnetworks at any given moment and well over a billion files are moving among and between computers around the world every month. And these figures, from p2p research company Big Champagne, are conservative.
As things stand, the corporate online music businesses insist everything is just fine as each tries to sell the same cookie-cutter product at more or less the same prices to more or less the same people.
“Microsoft has a formidable foe in market leader Apple, which boasts both the popular iTunes music store and the iPod music player,” says AP. Then there’s Napster II, RealNetworks, Wal-Mart, Coke, Living Bra – you name it.
And they’re all supplied by the Big Four labels, the only winners in the online music game so far.
But, “Analysts expect Microsoft to take advantage of two big guns,” says AP.
“First is its popular MSN Web site, which will provide the base for the service and could potentially draw millions of users to its offering” and then the, “Windows Media technology, which is already available on most Windows-based PCs as well as on portable media players from companies such as Rio Audio and Creative Technology”.
Meanwhile, back in the real world ….
September 1st, 2004 at 5:15 pm
this is just another attempt for microsuck to scam some people lol..
September 1st, 2004 at 5:52 pm
I think Microsoft really sux. This is another attempt for them to emulate already existing software, and enter a market where they’re not even needed. They did it w/Windows, copying the Mac OS interface, and now they’re doing it w/mTunes. Pretty soon they’re gonna start making refrigerators. I don’t wanna be here when that happens.
September 2nd, 2004 at 8:20 pm
Here’s another small step towards Microsoft dominating everything with a chip in.
I think that it is most likely that Microsoft will package mTunes with future releases of Windows, meaning that more people will have it when they buy their computer. This is espicially appealing to people who are new to computers, and don’t want to fiddle about with the internet (because they think it is unsafe – the image portrayed by the media all the time.) This will mean that Microsoft will once again dominate a market that they should not even touch.
Kill kill kill!
September 3rd, 2004 at 8:09 pm
Sounds to me like a bunch of people who are mad that microsoft is smart enough to take advantage of every market they can. Its bussiness, they should just watch possible places to make money go buy because its not their market? Yet, its ok that apple a computer company is in that market.
September 4th, 2004 at 10:54 am
despite all the copycat things Microsoft has been doing of late, it’s sure better that it turned out this way than the alternative: a world overrun by the limited technology of Apple shitboxes. talk about a waste of resources…
September 4th, 2004 at 4:51 pm
I agree with the last post. Windows machines make up probably like 80% of the consumer market. There is hardly any software out there for Apple machines, but if I needed a machine for graphics editing, a Mac would be the way to go.
September 5th, 2004 at 3:29 am
I can’t stand it when people say there is hardly any software out there for macs because it is just an uneducated statement. Do you use macs often? Are you familiar at all with the MacOS? If you were you would know there is tons of software out there for macs. Don’t bash what you don’t know about.
September 5th, 2004 at 9:59 pm
i think apple sucks microsoft can be gay sometimes but its hell of a lot better than apple
September 6th, 2004 at 9:32 pm
As consumers, most of you are complaining about the wrong thing. You really should be asking yourself: “But is it gonna be better than iTunes?”. Just wait for the answer, then shut up. If you’ve got a mac, then shut up. If you’ve got a pc, shut up.
September 9th, 2004 at 6:42 am
I disagree. I think with high moguls faggots like Bill Gates, they keep coming up with new shit. The next thing you know we will be living in biodomes and drive spaceships like in the jetsons. man the jetsons was the funnuest cartoon, they had that robot, a feamle robot who cleaned and the dog was just crazy. Ive always wondered how come they had a female robot, I think that the creator of the show was trying to say that women belong only in the kitcchen andthey are only made for cleaning, and cook and maybe occasional fucking. Well i dont know if the robot got fucked, thatll be some trippy shit, a guy fucking a robot hahahah.
September 14th, 2004 at 2:26 pm
First off Micrososft Windows is not copied from OSX. It’s copied from Linux and Amiga! Second,$1 a pop isn ‘t too bad since the files sound greater than the crap ITunes sells. And the player to me is clunky.
September 15th, 2004 at 2:38 pm
If you people have such a huge issue with Windows, then don’t buy it. Go with Linux or Apple or use a fucking typewriter for all I care.
September 20th, 2004 at 10:39 am
Whats the big deal about sharing music overthe internet,they talk about copyright, and artists are getting ripped off,what about the consumer?. In my life i have bought and collected many records,from singles to long players,i have bought stero`s,and can no longer use them.Surely one solution could be to swap the records for compact discs,by the same artist,then the consumer would be happy,it seems to me that the law courts in the US,and EU,are only concerned about the people making the song and dance about MONEY,MONEY,MONEY, and stuff the consumer and their rights…..
September 22nd, 2004 at 1:40 am
seems like we have found a new fight. and the contenders are microsoft VS mac. *crowds go crazy*
microsoft comes on strong by buying out sucessful little companys, while apple stays in a little corner with a OS system for graphics that .004% of our population uses! microsoft throws that first punch knocking apple further into the little corner. but apple has a plan. apple whips out its Ipod and Iswings it as a Iflail, smacking microsoft across the face. the match is about even. but here come linux! that little penguin pulles out a chaingun and blasts everything away! and so concludes this post. i got lazy
September 22nd, 2004 at 1:41 am
are u high? cause u sound high.
September 22nd, 2004 at 1:44 am
good ol canada. where music swapping is LEGAL!!! HAHahahahaah. enjoy living with rich people wanting to get richer.
September 25th, 2004 at 5:21 am
I’m not a real computer guy. Just a Chef.
But in my business I have always used microsoft.
But to reply to ALL who said where & whom they believed windows was stolen from, you are all wrong.
It was Xerox. “window” screens
Can you dig it?