Gates sees mobile phones overtaking iPods

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited May 2005 in Science & Tech
Microsoft founder Bill Gates sees mobile phones overtaking MP3s as the top choice of portable music player, and views the raging popularity of Apple's iPod player as unsustainable, he told a German newspaper.
As good as Apple may be, I don't believe the success of the iPod is sustainable in the long run," he said in an interview published in Thursday's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

"You can make parallels with computers: Apple was very strong in this field before, with its Macintosh and its graphics user interface -- like the iPod today -- and then lost its position," Gates said.
Source: Reuters

Comments

  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    I would agree, unless apple makes an iPod with a phone in it!

    It has always boggled my mind why cell phone manufacturers have not been very supportive of allowing their phones to play MP3s. Seems like the most obvious thing given the MP3 craze that has always been going on.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited May 2005
    Yeah, considering the batteries in the iPod are user unreplaceable. Unless you send it back to the manufacturer to get it replaced.
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