Gates: we’ll continue to challenge iTunes, iPod
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Feb 11, 2006 at 2:29pm
Microsoft and its hardware partners will continue to develop new digital media devices aimed at challenging the dominance of Apple Computer’s ubiquitous iPod music player, Chairman Bill Gates said on Friday.
“I don’t think what’s out on the market today is the final answer,” Gates said, speaking to a group of minority students (as reported by CNET. “Between us and our partners, you can expect some pretty hot products coming out over the next few years.”
Gates praised Apple’s iTunes Music Store and said the software giant was talking with hardware partners to create media devices that can be less expensive and easier to connect and can handle pictures and video better. Gates said the market share for digital music players compatible with Microsoft software is around 20 percent, a figure that is lower than he would like, CNET added.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
