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MS will probably partner with someone or the cell will have evolved way beyond, yes…the Treo 650.

Did someone buy Napster?
like what happened to napster? who jsut bought them?
I don’t recall that.

Unreasonable, Yes. MS already has a cell OS. And they do not have any products other then software, except the XBOX which could still be an OS.
So you are saying MS will make a phone and get in with the mp3 phone stuff and I say no way.

I think this post has run it’s “coarse”, .

Re: gates – I read it on the news, maybe google can find it. I dont remember him saying what he would do just that mp3 songs would be switched to the cell phone. He usually doesnt talk about things he isnt thinking of getting into.

Is it really that farfetched …?

If apple is a huge success with 10 million users than anything over 100 million ( less than 10% of the world cell users Today ) cell users would be a 1000 % increase and blow away the ipod.

The numbers are there and MS has the cash in the bank ( 50 Bil.+ ) to play in the arena with Motorola and Nokia, becoming a cell startup is dumb so maybe they will partner with them or someone else in some FORM to gain a wide footprint with the OS or some other way or type of service or buy whomever is selling songs – like what happened to napster? who jsut bought them?

The following is in general terms and I dont have time to make sure every detail is accurate but the content is there.

Think outside of OS for this( yes Apple is very great and should be running the computer world ). Talking about MS taking over the cell industry by Posibly obtaining a new OS was a speculation on my part and because that is what they did with the pc and ousted many from the large generic os bus. pc world – apple, unix, many others I cant remember. Everyone was thinking of something else and using DOS 3.whatever until Gates made the deal with IBM and it was a killer app. Everyone could get onboard with MS or fall by the wayside.
The guy has a great business mind now surround by more brillant people than before who are talking about this in some form I’m sure.
Is it some form of this so unreasonable – like Apple and Intel?

You know Palm makes the Treo right? Actually it’s two companies but I won’t go there. And Microsoft makes the PocketPC both compete for the market share of PDA’s. After saying that Palm is so much like Apple. Making their own PDA’s and OS. Oh, well.

Bill Gates is talking about it? Where did you get this little bit of info? Since MS mostly makes OS’s and not devices how did he say he would come into the market? Very interesting, indeed.

I don’t think it is that big of a business as you think. In a couple years everything will change with consumers needs. And I do not see this as being a staple or a necessity for MS to get into.

I could be wrong though, MS did screw up in the whole web searching arena.

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Apple will be releasing a phone with motorola soon that will incorporate iTunes within it. For all the iPod/PMP3P user out there that want an mp3 player/phone will most likely go this route. iTunes is still the best music service and if it syncs with it, I can’t see anyone not want to go with this phone. Branding goes a long way with Apple.

Apple has been specualted for releasing their own phone. Something feature rich, but only specualtion.

Why did you bring Microsoft into it? As Jared said they most likely will not go into this type of thing since they are motivated for office use. Windows Mobile is very clucky and not easy to use, as Jared said its Pocket Pc for a phone and the only reason they have sold any is because origianlly those phones were the only phones to sync with their own exchange server. Exchange rulls the corporate world and I would assume that microsoft say the need for cell users to sync there data with thier phone, that is why we see the smart phone, not because people wanted a phone and a PocketPC in one. how could I speculate this? because the ealry smart phones advertised this to the extreme and they didn’t have querty keypads or touch screens to enter data. Although recently this has changed with Microsoft exchange allowing the Treo 650 to sync with the exchange server 2003, I don’t know who or how they got that going but they, I think, are the only phones that sync nativily (out of the box) with exchange.

I will not tell you how popular exchange is or what it even does you will have to look that up. But alsmot every large company uses it, at least of what I have been exposed to.

So, to make it short. Microsoft will not have a simple MP3/phone, never, they do not have the need to do so. 1. They fasion to the business folks not the hipsters 2. They dont have the drive to do so either since they no longer have a music service (that is noticable).

Apple will release a MP3/phone, this year. It will sell to the hipsters and be a good cool gadget that will sell but will not revolutionize shi…crap.

In the next two years there will most likely be three types of phones/devices.
1. Treo/Smart Phone
2. small little phone that does nothing except call and recieve; small like the iPod shuffle
3. The hybrid. A good camera/phone. A good mp3 player/phone. A good handheld gaming device/phone. I do not think anyone will pull off the ultimate phone that does all of this in one, not saying noone will try but it will flop just like every other all in one out there to date.