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Mix: Origami device, iPod fake, Samsung Z5, Pogue on Amazon
Microsoft has set up a cryptic website for its “Origami Project,” which appears to be a new portable touch-screen device that could be introduced as early as this week. The site says the product will “change your life.”
A photo that appeared on several websites last week purporting to be the new video iPod has been proven to be a fake. The creator of the hoax has documented the process of creating the original image in a video that has been posted online.
The software inside Samsung’s new Z5 portable MP3 player “was forged at Iventor Inc. by a small team of programmers led by Paul Mercer, 38, a veteran Apple Macintosh software designer.”
The New York Times’ David Pogue comments on the reports of Amazon launching an online music store and a branded MP3 player: “First, Amazon will have to beat the iPod’s physical beauty—its chic quotient, its jewelry factor. Then it will have to match the iTunes Music Store, complete with videos, podcasts, gift certificates, and so on. Then it will have to overcome the ‘lock factor’—the fact that anyone who’s ever bought an iTunes song is unlikely to switch players, thanks to Apple’s proprietary copy-protection scheme. Finally, Amazon will have to start in 2001.”
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1
Nice of Microsoft to write the inevitable headline for us:
“After struggling to gain market share, Origami folds”
Posted by Hrothgar on February 27, 2006 at 9:42 AM (PDT)
2
“And winner for cramming the most crap into a poorly designed, barley portable device goes to…”
Posted by nosedive51 on February 27, 2006 at 11:27 AM (PDT)
3
wow..that video of the fake iPod was sweet. lol
Posted by Jesse on February 27, 2006 at 1:36 PM (PDT)
4
You gotta admit, he did a pretty good job on faking it as it got the whole world taking about it.
Posted by evoGage on February 27, 2006 at 1:39 PM (PDT)