It’s gotten better since it first launched — at least technologically — but I stopped reading it while it was still free. I don’t think this is going to be the subscription model for tablets that takes hold. (via paidcontent.org)
Month: March 2011
Report: Microsoft killing the Zune; giving up effort to ‘loosen iPod’s stranglehold on the iPod market’
In what may be the only way anyone would notice, Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft is dropping its Zune media player, and would incorporate the technology into other devices such as phones and its XBox gaming platform. Microsoft introduced the Zune in 2006 as a competitor to Apple’s iPhone.
The Bloomberg article outlines the Zune’s reception as an “iPod killer,” including Talk Show Host Craig Ferguson’s observation that the device was Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates’s bid to “loosen iPod’s stranglehold on the iPod market.”
Bon Jovi: Steve Jobs killed the music business
If you read his explanation for that charge, what he really means is Jobs killed the experience of shopping for music by listening to it in record stores, and that’s not true — big retailers like Target and Walmart had already taken care of that. In fact, iTunes preserved that experience to a much greater extent than brick and mortar retailers. (via The Loop)