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Apple might have to pay Microsoft $10 per Ipod!!! by Fourjays on 08-15-2005 at 10:20 PM
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article305638.ece
Sounds like there is going to be an interesting battle there....
RE: Apple might have to pay Microsoft $10 per Ipod!!! by absorbation on 08-15-2005 at 10:24 PM
lol apple would lose out very bad if this took place 
RE: Apple might have to pay Microsoft $10 per Ipod!!! by TylerG on 08-16-2005 at 05:09 PM
That sucks, Microsoft is just Pissed because iPods are beating their mp3 players
I am on apples side in this dispute...
RE: Apple might have to pay Microsoft $10 per Ipod!!! by mwe99 on 08-16-2005 at 05:20 PM
More like the people who own iPods will have to pay it
RE: Apple might have to pay Microsoft $10 per Ipod!!! by DJeX on 08-16-2005 at 06:08 PM
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Originally posted by TylerG
That sucks, Microsoft is just Pissed because iPods are beating their mp3 players
I agree
quote:
Originally posted by mwe99
More like the people who own iPods will have to pay it
How?
RE: Apple might have to pay Microsoft $10 per Ipod!!! by Fourjays on 08-16-2005 at 06:14 PM
A patent is a patent. Apple have no leg to stand on really, unless they can prove what they are claiming, which is that MS filed the patent AFTER the iPod (which would mean they did it deliberately for this reason).
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Originally posted by DJeX
quote:
Originally posted by mwe99
More like the people who own iPods will have to pay it
How?
Im not sure either, but Im guessing by putting the price of the iPod up?
RE: Apple might have to pay Microsoft $10 per Ipod!!! by Stigmata on 08-16-2005 at 06:20 PM
i read that microsoft are going to make competition?
better then the ipod?
better then the zen micro?
anyone think it will be decent?
RE: Apple might have to pay Microsoft $10 per Ipod!!! by Anubis on 08-18-2005 at 09:14 AM
quote:If there's one thing MS are really good at, it's making nice GUIs more a wide audience. So yes, if Microsoft do make competition I think you can expect a really good GUI with very good hardware. Even though MS don't do a lot of hardware work, they do know a lot about hardware. Hopefully a GUI something like PalmOS.
Originally posted by Stigmata
i read that microsoft are going to make competition?
...
anyone think it will be decent?
I think if MS did their work right they could do a really good job.
The thing they may mess up is something dumb like making it a player that only does .wma files, and files have to be converted before they can go on the player. However for marketing reasons, I doubt they will do this, but they won't likely want the term "MP3 player" to be used, something like "Portable audio file player"
RE: RE: Apple might have to pay Microsoft $10 per Ipod!!! by rav0 on 08-18-2005 at 09:41 AM
quote:microsoft already has something with creative
Originally posted by Stigmata
better then the zen micro?
RE: Apple might have to pay Microsoft $10 per Ipod!!! by WDZ on 08-18-2005 at 10:08 AM
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Originally posted by Fourjays
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article305638.ece
quote:
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/10/microsoft_apple_patent/
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=12312
RE: Apple might have to pay Microsoft $10 per Ipod!!! by John Anderton on 08-18-2005 at 10:13 AM
quote:Even better .... its in the tech section of todays news paper
Originally posted by WDZ
quote:
Originally posted by Fourjays
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article305638.ece
Better links...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/10/microsoft_apple_patent/
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=12312
Read it early in the morning
RE: Apple might have to pay Microsoft $10 per Ipod!!! by Fourjays on 08-18-2005 at 06:43 PM
Thats strange. It showed the full article with no charge when I first saw it and posted it 
. I guess it is because that was a few days ago, and maybe only subscribers can look at the archives?