In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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wrote
on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:33:55 +0100
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> Microsoft's Zune Portable Music Player Won't Bite Into Apple's IPod
> Popularity, Analyst Says
>
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> | Microsoft Corp.'s much-anticipated Zune portable music player
> | appears "underwhelming" and could end up being "another classic case
> | of overpromising and underdelivering" by the world's biggest software
> | company, said an analyst for American Technology Research on
> | Wednesday.
> `----
>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060830/microsoft_apple_analyst_note.html?.v=1
>
> Sounds just like the XBox 360, with high failure rates and colossal losses.
They probably should have named the silly thing Banana. :-)
(Pear? Orange? Gold nugget?)
At least the 360 is starting to sell, though part of that
might be because the PS3 is late. The good news:
http://www.ps3portal.com/
is reporting at this moment that it's begun production.
http://www.ps3portal.com/ps3/article/460.html
(Actually, this is a month ago: 2006-07-20.)
So maybe it's not so late after all. Christmas is coming. :-)
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-cell/?ca=dgr-lnxw09SpufsCell
appears to be a Linux development effort for PS3's cell processor.
Good to see.
Might even be the default:
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/624/624046p1.html
though it will probably be somewhat hidden from the casual gamer,
sort of like a cell phone or, if anyone remembers it, Commodore's
attempt at making the Amiga into a CD video device (the precise
name escapes me now).
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