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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
Of course, if the experience is anything like WMP10 on the Pocket C, Apple has nothing to worry about, except increased production demands for the iPod. :roll:
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Glad someone else feels this way. I find the notion that a PDA, particularly a Windows Mobile device, can suitably replace an iPod as a viable media player as laughable at best. The iPod experience is intuitive, and painlessly simple. You dock it, it syncs your library and playlists....and you're done. Contrast that with a typical PPC phone or Palm device and you have the opposite extreme. The embedded playback software sucks, the desktop client software is gut wrenchingly bad. And the process of moving content is ridiculously flawed. Microsoft has a LONG way to go before the nail down multimedia support. What's really strange is that technically they are halfway there now. ActiveSync offers a live, always-on, connection to the desktop as a mountable storage medium, which is largely how iPod/iTunes sync works. Unfortunately everything past that point is sucktactular.
I was hopeful that Windows Vista might be the bridge that crosses the gulf, but based on my experiences with the most recent builds I don't see great leaps and bounds made in that category. *sigh*
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