@jordanbiffle
Count one more for the Google position on this... It's been a real surprise.
Apple has enough customers and the ability to deploy a service like this in no time, why buy Lala?

Awesome, people uses FrontRow!!!!

(life has to be really boring these days)

Let's make it Sonos + iPod Touch + Rhapsody subscription (optional) + PC or NAS

Since the CR200 is just a controller, you could not consider it a PMP, and out of your home is useless. I don't really love the iPod, but it does the things the guy required...

u r right

Do we agree that music/films should NOT be free? because it shouldn't... Artists deserve to be paid for their creativity efforts and for being our entertainers, and publishers for letting it reach us. The truth is I don't care who gets how much, but that is their frackin' problem. What I don't see is why they need a institutional copyright holders association with the sole mission of taxing the extra dollars they didn’t deserve, advocate for restriction of usage laws/licensing models to ensure they get delivered those dollars, and finally prosecute people just to scare the rest of us that are circumventing unfair laws and or limits

What happens with these suckers is that the put stupid limitations to content use in order to fill their bag of greed. They helped grow piracy above a structural level (there always be people that don't like to pay for things). They failure to do the best for their own business is well beyond my comprehension

It is kinda funny that you lately show this photo of Sir Howard with an open door behind him, it is like somebody's showing him the way out...
We should be able to rate pictures based in the our perceived connotation...

Regarding the issue here, yeah, it is time for a price cut, even if they are trying to make some extra money from customers for the money they've lost in the first million of units, internally speaking they hardware is a bit dated, they should have been able to improve manufacturing costs, with cheaper and better components (45nm or whatever), and pass part of that savings or potential profit to customers. At least they should drop the price in order to get some market share back, but that is up to them.

The truth here is that us, customers, have an alternative in the hardcore game space (the XBOX), and alternative for the casual kiddy demands (Wii), and many frackin alternatives for the VoD. If they don't want to sell their ecosystem to us, it is OK, we could very well live with their sustitutes (that some of us could argue that are even better)

Their old gaming market share at this pace will rest in peace soon (as their walkman share did), and of course I am perceiving the same pattern on the TV side. Once that last one is done, the old SONY will shut the door and be bought by a cheap taiwanese brand, quite an achievement for a japanese company

True... true

Man, I had to say this...

AUTOREVERSE!

Yeah, mate, for that type of usage, you will have to recgharge your iPhone batteries at least a million times... good luck.

Probably, future iPhone 5G Sxi++, will carry a mini nuclear reactor to give juice even to your laptop (wirelessly, of course), and you will be able to tether your whole commute to the Moon and back

I thought Apple had that in mind already... where have you been hiding?

Why you all keep talking about music subscription services as if Rhapsody or Napters didn't existed... I am amazed.

If you are talking innovative, 10 songs a month for free is not business innovative, it looks like a promo to me, ok, permanent, ok, really cheap/DRM free, but as you said it is a implicit price discount. What will be really innovative is to let user move the songs to devices for the price of the subscription as if the device were user's own "CDN", local cache, or whatever... who is to blame? I don't know, maybe content owners/distributors, maybe us for not telling them to frack off

In the future, when permanent mobile broadband becomes a reality, this will not be an issue anymore, subscription will be the only thing you need, without wanting to keep songs (unless you want to keep them for future generations)