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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Thursday, May 27, 2004Microsoft again misquoted by the Mac pressAt the Goldman Sachs 5th Annual Internet Conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Microsoft corporate vice president Yusuf Mehdi said the following:"I've spent time with a bunch of hardware manufacturers who will launch hardware products when we ship our service that will look and feel as good as the iPod product. And they will undoubtedly be a little bit less expensive and so head-to-head against Apple we'll have a device that will be available to the consumer. We won't produce it but it will be available to the consumer. We gave a lot of input. And then we'll have a bunch of other devices, some that we've already talked about, one the Portable Media Center, which is a device that's a little bit bigger and a little more expensive that has video and audio, much higher end looking device. It's for people who really want to sort of look at music videos and not just music, which is very powerful, we'll have that offering. And then a bunch of devices in between, little ones that cost 50 bucks and you can go running with." When he said "we," he meant the wider "me," as in "Microsoft's hardware partners," who, combined with Microsoft, make up the Microsoft-oriented side in the digital music wars. This is pretty obvious. Well, not to the Mac Web, of course, who I foolishly quoted earlier when noting this story. See how similar these all are? Macworld: " Microsoft is to sell its portable music-players for 80 per cent less than Apple 's iPod, the company has announced. MSN corporate vice president Yusuf Mehdi told the Goldman Sachs fifth annual Internet Conference that the Microsoft-branded devices will 'look and feel as good as the iPod for as little as $50'." MacNN: " Microsoft will begin selling portable music players for as much as 80 percent less than Apple's iPod ... 'The Microsoft-branded devices will look and feel as good as the iPod for as little as $50, said Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of MSN at Microsoft Corp., at the Goldman Sachs fifth annual Internet Conference in Las Vegas. The iPod sells for $249 to $499. Microsoft will release a number of music players when it launches its online music service later this year, giving customers more choices than Apple, Mehdi said.'" Mac Central: "Microsoft Corp. Corporate Vice President of MSN Yusuf Mehdi told attendees of Goldman Sachs' fifth annual Internet Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada that the company will produce its own line of portable music players for as little as US$50." Mac Minute: "At the Goldman Sachs fifth annual Internet Conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft said it will begin selling portable music players for as much as 80 percent less than Apple's iPod. The Microsoft-branded devices will 'look and feel' as good as the iPod for as little as US$50, said Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of MSN at Microsoft." And so on. There are actually more examples out there, but you get the idea. Why are these all the same? Because they all quote the same snippet (it's not even a story) in The Denver Post (!!!), hardly a member of the high-tech news source of fame. Folks, check the transcript. That's not what he said. That said, PC economics are wonderful. I suspect Apple will be slashing iPod prices by Christmas. [ Posted at 9:26 PM | Permalink ]
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