Nitin Gupta
Nitin Gupta
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The best-case scenario would be that one format will drop out, eliminating the confusion, but it appears that both are prepared to go to market, and they both have significant support.
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It was going to happen eventually. It just happened sooner rather than later.
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We're going to see some type of portable device that offers some PDA elements but is very consumer-focused, and that means more entertainment functionality.
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We're seeing, in the past few months, a trend towards longer form content becoming available for free and supported by advertising .
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We want people to kind of help us choose what to listen to. This device kind of fills that role.
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Those who are serious about the latest high-definition games need more power, but until the manufacturers add capabilities for playing next-generation, high-definition video, it remains a niche market.
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There's been a lot of speculation about the iPod phone, which represents a trend toward providing handhelds with digital-content playback capabilities.
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There might not be a lot of demand among current iPod users, but the real attraction will be among those who don't have the music players but want to try digital audio.
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Apple was there first. They provided an elegant solution and a vertically integrated solution that works very well.
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This is a service targeted at a device that millions of people are buying, and the mobile phone is a good vector for audio, but manufacturers and carriers still have to convince consumers that the phones are not just communications devices.
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This is some low-hanging fruit. Apple tried to sell the lack of a screen as a feature with the Shuffle, so the Shuffle is easy to compete against. But you have to look at the whole environment. Apple's iPods are doing fabulous and their online music store, iTunes, is No. 1.
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This also helps DirecTV. XM has established a pretty good brand out there, but XM certainly has more to gain out of this relationship.
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Dell is going after Apple's low-hanging fruit with a price and memory capacity that are about the same as the Shuffle. It might be a more compelling device, with the screen and FM tuner, but Apple has its popular iTunes library and offers a better user experience.
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I think it's the most intriguing part of the deal.