Nitin Gupta
Nitin Gupta
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The beginning of a legitimate service would be filling a consumer need. I don't think $1.99 is a compelling business model. ABC is trying to gauge the market.
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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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The new card will provide Bank of India's customers with secure and convenient electronic access to their own money anytime, anywhere.
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That's certainly something they could implement. The real issue is the purchased music portion. That's not going to change anytime soon.
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We've heard it all before. We've heard so much rhetoric that this race is now anticlimactic. At this point, just show me the DVD player already.
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This type of content is now driving sales, and Apple is leading the way in media consumption.
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Transformational ideas like the Walkman are hard to come by these days.
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Vista will provide content owners with a more secure platform to deliver their premium content. However, it will take more than an operating system to turn the PC into a media hub. Creating innovative consumer experiences around premium content will help expand the market for content delivery via the PC. Vista is not the key component.
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Video was inevitable in digital audio players; to actually build the consumer demand portion of that, there really needs to be compelling content. What's promising is that you have one of the biggest content companies in the world willing to experiment with this. But I'm doubtful it will appeal (right now). What will be more compelling is $10 for a whole season. But with Apple and Disney talking, it brings the ability for innovative distribution deals to come to light.
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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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Apple was there first. They provided an elegant solution and a vertically integrated solution that works very well.
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Sony has tremendous brand strength in portable-audio players. And the digital-audio market is going to expand dramatically in the next few years.