“To do this these manufacturers are coming out with a slew of
products for the holidays, all looking to see which features stick
with consumers. MPIO is but one of dozens of manufacturers ranging
from seasoned veterans like Creative Labs to newcomers as disparate
as SanDisk and Roc-A-Fella records. More important, these players
do a better job of mimicking the iPod’s favorable
dimesion/weight/capacity statistics, the Apple’s most desireable
feature. They are also offering iPod looks and colors.“Of note, Ogg Vorbis is making some significant progress in the
market as a number of manufacturers are turning to the open source
codec to draw Ogg fans. Likewise Microsoft’s new rent-a song
digital rights management (DRM) scheme is starting to find hardware
adopters, mostly so they can at least grab Napster users who hold
almost 10% of the paid download market…”
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