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http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,604042,00.html '[ Apple tries to get with iPod ] just a 5% share of the worldwide MP3 player market. That's a small share of a very small market, although it would mirror their slice of the PC market. But Apple hopes its sexy new gadget will persuade a lot more Mac users to join in - and maybe even cause a few people to buy a Mac so they can own an iPod. And this could be iPod's most important purpose. For, no matter how cool Apple makes its computers and associated devices, it still has to answer one, simple, age-old question from computer shoppers, both first time and those upgrading: why would anyone buy a Mac, when the rest of the world - or at least 95% of it - is running on Windows? After all, PC users enjoy a far wider array of software and peripherals, and do not have to rely on one company to come up with new hardware. And Windows XP is substantially more user-friendly than its PC ancestors, while the hardware it runs on is often much cheaper. Gadgets like iPod, and software like iTunes, help answer those questions, by bringing the argument of which is best - PC or Mac - on to Apple's home ground: multimedia. The message is that, for many popular office and internet applications, Apple Macs pretty much match their PC counterparts (but let's not talk about games, or bleeding edge internet applications). For things like plug and play digital music and video - those areas Apple is so keen to push as The Future - Mac is best. Time, and sales figures, will tell.' ---> jab | commie | http://commie.oy.com "Less is moo." - The Holy Mad Cow
