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Monday, November 28, 2005
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Jukeboxes, DJs Being Pushed Out by iPods: "[There is] a growing number of places across the country where people can bring their iPods and other portable music players and, for as long as the bartender allows, share their personal favorites with the crowd."
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Apple's Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel: "To wager on this company is to bet that the exodus of users can be staunched and then, implausibly, reversed. It's hard to imagine such a scenario, given Apple's shrinking girth." This item from 2001 highlights the fact that you should never trust financial or IT industry analysts. Of course it would have been hard to imagine the Apple comeback as it happened, but that is no excuse for sloppy reporting. In 2001 Mac OS X was already way past Windows XP in usability and robustness. By the way, when this article appeared I had just written my review of Mac OS X 10.1 for a Finnish computer magazine.
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