Creative: Apple to blame for MP3 player memory shortage

Playlist ^ | 10/26/2005 | Martyn Williams

[dighton]

First Mac here was a Lisa, running Mac emulation SW -- the name escapes me. IIRC, the 10 or 20 MB (!) external HD alone cost a coupla grand.

[pageonetoo]

Gee, my first time was a fat Mac, with a 5 meg Hyperdrive INTERNAL (GCC). I bought an ImageWriter, (and replaced it as soon as someone made a driver for the HP DeskJet), and a MacDraft CAD program, and sat at my desk for a half hour setting it up.

Then, I spent a few minutes playing, and printed a rough 1/4" scale floor plan. I was hooked. My friends were using a c>. I was using a mouse...

Currently using a G5 desktop (running Final Cut Pro, among other goodies. Think iMovie on steroids), with the 23" cinema display, but still using HP (OfficeJet). I also use a G4 17" PowerBook, a G4 desktop, my wife won't get rid of her Wallstreet G3, and 16 yr old has iMac DV. Airport Extreme runs them onto a cable modem, and print share.

I remember my (then) four year old daughter sitting at a computer. I had purchased an innocuous little program called StickeyBears. She learned to use it instantly, and fought me for time on the Mac.

She was reading, and doing math when she went to kindergarten...

Windoze guys are welcome to their PC's. I think I'll make another movie of my grandkids!

[webstersII]

Did you come up with that?

If so, I'm impressed! That old A&C Who's on First routine is one of the all-time classics of comedy.

[x5452]

Who's a stupid sheep the guy paying for a CD (quite possibly rip-protected) for 17$ without free bonuses, then taking time to load the CD, attempt to rip it, and then storing it somewhere, or the guy getting it for 10$ with free videos and bonuses, who can store it in one central place and also take it on his iPod or broadcast it over WiFi to anywhere in his home?

[Izzy Dunne]

Did you come up with that?

No, I cannot claim credit. Alas, I do not know where I got it, though. It's on a Sticky note.

[Aquinasfan]

She was reading, and doing math when she went to kindergarten...

Great story up to that part.

[MortMan]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[chilepepper]

only a stupid sheep pays $17 for a CD. I buy my CD's from BMG, and averages $9 a piece, if that... i own the music i want to own. all the modern stuff is written for stupid sheep who must always be listening to *something* to drown out the unbearable silence within their hollow minds...

[pageonetoo]

Great story up to that part.

?

[x5452]

So basically if a consumer product isn't aimed at your tiny niche taste you feel it's prone to fail in the market. Your original synopsis was the iPod/iTunes is bad for the average person, it's actually perfect for the average person, and when creative goes out of business it will be because only niche users like yourself care to use their product.

[agooga]

I am SOOO sorry about that!!!

[MortMan]

No you're not. It was funny, but needed to be booed!

[chilepepper]

you should eat more fish... maybe you'll become more intelligent.

[x5452]

You should read some economics books and study consumer trends. Then maybe you'll understand why when Creative closes shop.

[Sir Gawain]

Creative is better than Apple anyway.

[Aquinasfan]

Great story up to that part. ?

School changes kids for the worse.

[evolved_rage]

LOL. Well Done.

[LearnsFromMistakes]

Why didn't you include 'COST++' just before your loop...

[Terpfen]

... they build very nice players...

This would be a first that a Creative product was ever "very nice," then. I can't believe this company has a monopoly on the PC sound card market.