iPod Vending Machines Spotted

[liqnit]

well this one was sure to come some time soon get your iPod from the vending machine
just like a can of drink or chocolate bar
wonder if this (http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=1172)really sells...

[madscientist327]

Wow... What will they think of next?

[BLuKnight]

That's an interesting concept. But what's to keep someone from breaking the glass and ripping off a few. Obviously the one in the Airport is safe. But still, if you put one of these at a gas station in Philadelphia, there'd be nothing left.

[Rob Williams]

But still, if you put one of these at a gas station in Philadelphia, there'd be nothing left.

That's for sure. The airpports are usually packed with security though, so it would be something impressive to get away with breaking into that thing.

[madstork91]

who wants an iPod? I mean really? Steve Jobs is the devil!

[LOOP]

According to the article, these vendor machines are being placed in grocery stores too? Doesn't sound like a very secured area to me. Atleast nobody has been stupid enough to put any in outside locations yet, but I'm sure someone will. Stupidity of some people, never fails to impress me, LOL :)

[dibene]

Yummy. I'll bet iPods promote tooth decay, so be sure to floss afterwards.

[Rob Williams]

Someone hurry up and go develop iFLOSS before Apple does.

[dibene]

Someone hurry up and go develop iFLOSS before Apple does.

And let's keep it well under Cat-5 size, ok? I don't want to have Tic-Tac teeth :p

[Rob Williams]

And let's keep it well under Cat-5 size, ok? I don't want to have Tic-Tac teeth :p

LOL, I would have to agree!

[andanton]

Ipod sucks. Many better companies out there that make better and higher quality mp3 players.

[dibene]

Any news on France preparing to require iTunes to distribute their songs in a format compatible with most .mp3 players? I just heard about it on the news Friday.

[Rob Williams]

I personally think that Apple would rather pull out of the EU market entirely instead of complying with their terms. That's how Jobs is.

To be honest, EU tends to go overboard, but we have seen that caused Microsoft to give in, in the past.

Who knows.

[ducarti]

What terms is EU trying to force on the Ipod?

[Rob Williams]

It's to the extent of telling Apple they need to make music downloaded off iTunes work in other players or they cannot offer iTunes over there anymore.

[Jakal]

Y-you can... an mp3 downloaded off of itunes can be saved on say. .a Creative Nomad or Zen. You can't use itunes to send it to the player, but the software comes with those so you can. Am I the only one that sees that?

[andanton]

It's to the extent of telling Apple they need to make music downloaded off iTunes work in other players or they cannot offer iTunes over there anymore.

Totally what they should have to do. Prevents Apple forming an effective monopoly. I wish they did the same thing in America.

[Rob Williams]

I agree. Proprietary formats suck, but Apple loves having a monopoly. It will hit them one day I'm sure though.

[living_joke]

I agree. Proprietary formats suck, but Apple loves having a monopoly. It will hit them one day I'm sure though.

It ALREADY hit them. And it hit them bad. They lost literally hundreds of billions of dollars in profit because of it. Don't you understand? Doesn't anyone understand? Apple already lost billions of dollars in profit due to their attempts at forming a monopoly.

That is why Microsoft was able to totally 'own' Apple? It was Apple's own greed that cause the company to nearly go out of business. Almost nobody uses Apple computers anymore. Its very sad that when a company's very own greed can be the very thing that causes the company to nearly go bankrupt. Even more sad is when the people running the company do not have enough intelligence to know when their greed is actually costing them billions of dollars in profit. Yes greed can actually cost you millions or billions of dollars in profit. Many company executives believe that greed always generate profit, the same as they always believe that advertisements never have negative consequences and always generate customers. A good company executive understands that everything, no matter how positive it sounds at first glance, may have negative consequences.

What do I mean by greed? Well I was around when Apple first released the Macintosh computers. Windows didn't even exist. Even the poorly written Windows 3.1 did not exist. And not only did Apple have the graphical user interface that was better then anything out there, and that would remain better then anything out there for 10 years, they also was using a much superior processor. The motorola 68000 processor, which was in the first Macintosh computers, fully supported totally linear memory. You didn't have to deal with the annoying 65k barrier, like you do when writing programs for an IBM compatible computer. Now read all this and ask yourself why Microsoft became the #1 computer and OS company in America, while Apple that had everything didn't? You know why? If you don't then your as bad as the company executives who ran Apple into the ground.

I give you a hint. Apple refused to license its technologies to anyone. If it did license its technologies, then there would of been 300 companies producing Apple Macintosh clone-computers. There would of been thousands of companies developing software for Macintosh OS. Apple Macintosh would of taken over the computer world by storm, the same way Microsoft did..... Microsoft would be nearly out of business now. It was Apple's very greed that caused them to go nearly bankrupt. Apple was greedy and the people in charge of Apple (who had an IQ of less then a moron) thought that by being greedy and maintaining a monopoly on its items and NOT licensing them to other companies, that they would make the most money. You ended up with ONE company fighting against TWO THOUSAND companies. One vs two thousand. Does it really take an IQ of much higher then a moron, to realize that ONE vs TWO THOUSAND, that your going to end up losing? If Apple licensed it code it would of been TWO THOUSAND vs TWO THOUSAND. All the IBM compatible companies vs. the apple macintosh clone companies. It would of been an equal playing field and Apple that had the best in everything in their computers, would of won. It was their very own greed that drove them into the ground. Apple is a laughing stock of a company now, because it was their very own stupidity that let Microsoft own the computer world. Funny but true.

[phonywish]

It ALREADY hit them. And it hit them bad. They lost literally hundreds of billions of dollars in profit because of it. Don't you understand? Doesn't anyone understand? Apple already lost billions of dollars in profit due to their attempts at forming a monopoly.

That is why Microsoft was able to totally 'own' Apple? It was Apple's own greed that cause the company to nearly go out of business. Almost nobody uses Apple computers anymore. Its very sad that when a company's very own greed can be the very thing that causes the company to nearly go bankrupt. Even more sad is when the people running the company do not have enough intelligence to know when their greed is actually costing them billions of dollars in profit. Yes greed can actually cost you millions or billions of dollars in profit. Many company executives believe that greed always generate profit, the same as they always believe that advertisements never have negative consequences and always generate customers. A good company executive understands that everything, no matter how positive it sounds at first glance, may have negative consequences.

What do I mean by greed? Well I was around when Apple first released the Macintosh computers. Windows didn't even exist. Even the poorly written Windows 3.1 did not exist. And not only did Apple have the graphical user interface that was better then anything out there, and that would remain better then anything out there for 10 years, they also was using a much superior processor. The motorola 68000 processor, which was in the first Macintosh computers, fully supported totally linear memory. You didn't have to deal with the annoying 65k barrier, like you do when writing programs for an IBM compatible computer. Now read all this and ask yourself why Microsoft became the #1 computer and OS company in America, while Apple that had everything didn't? You know why? If you don't then your as bad as the company executives who ran Apple into the ground.

I give you a hint. Apple refused to license its technologies to anyone. If it did license its technologies, then there would of been 300 companies producing Apple Macintosh clone-computers. There would of been thousands of companies developing software for Macintosh OS. Apple Macintosh would of taken over the computer world by storm, the same way Microsoft did..... Microsoft would be nearly out of business now. It was Apple's very greed that caused them to go nearly bankrupt. Apple was greedy and the people in charge of Apple (who had an IQ of less then a moron) thought that by being greedy and maintaining a monopoly on its items and NOT licensing them to other companies, that they would make the most money. You ended up with ONE company fighting against TWO THOUSAND companies. One vs two thousand. Does it really take an IQ of much higher then a moron, to realize that ONE vs TWO THOUSAND, that your going to end up losing? If Apple licensed it code it would of been TWO THOUSAND vs TWO THOUSAND. All the IBM compatible companies vs. the apple macintosh clone companies. It would of been an equal playing field and Apple that had the best in everything in their computers, would of won. It was their very own greed that drove them into the ground. Apple is a laughing stock of a company now, because it was their very own stupidity that let Microsoft own the computer world. Funny but true.

I understand your points, but your exagerating when you say that they lost billions of dollars.

[SqueekyClean]

That is why Microsoft was able to totally 'own' Apple? It was Apple's own greed that cause the company to nearly go out of business. Almost nobody uses Apple computers anymore.

Everything you are arguing is about their computers. Apple is diversified now and makes most of it's money thru other outlets. The Ipod is probably the all time largest selling MP3 player. Apple has made enough money selling Ipods to buy other companies out.

[Angela Miller]

I don't see what the major deal with the Ipod is. Is it a fad or something? I would rather just get an mp3 disc player and use cd-rw than get an iPod and have to use special software to put songs on it.

[chillout]

I don't see what the major deal with the Ipod is. Is it a fad or something? I would rather just get an mp3 disc player and use cd-rw than get an iPod and have to use special software to put songs on it.

The Ipod is popular because it was the first highly recognized brand name for a mp3 player that doesn't require discs. Whoever is the first to implement an idea is usually the most popular by default. There are a lot of companies around who sell the same type of product, but nobody else will ever become as popular as the Ipod because the Ipod was first.

[Uc-ker]

Everything you are arguing is about their computers. Apple is diversified now and makes most of it's money thru other outlets. The Ipod is probably the all time largest selling MP3 player. Apple has made enough money selling Ipods to buy other companies out.

Yes, Apple made a lot selling Ipods, but in my last post here I argued that they could of made billions if they didn't fumble the ball early on.

Imagine if ATI or Nvidia did NOT license their hardware. They would of lost what billions of dollars in profit? Please try to imagine the effect on the profit if ATI or Nvidia were greedy and tryed to have a monopoly. Imagine how much LESS money they would of made. Imagine how fewer advertisements there would of been for their cards. It is because of their licensing that they have hundreds of different companies each making their cards, and paying to advertise for them out of their own pocket. It is because of hundreds of companies advertising and promoting their products that they are so successful. It is THIS which Apple turned down in 1986, and it is THIS that cost them billions of dollars in profit.

I thought there would be a lot of conversation on this topic when I brought it up. I'm not sure if it is because people do not understand what I'm saying or if they do not believe me when I say Apple lost billions of dollars over trying to be a monopoly. Don't think most people can imagine the chain of events. It is like trying to imagine what would of happened to ATI or Nvidia if one or the other did not license their hardware. Imagine that, then you can understand how critical a mistake Apple made.

[dibene]

Yes, Apple made a lot selling Ipods, but in my last post here I argued that they could of made billions if they didn't fumble the ball early on.
Imagine if ATI or Nvidia did NOT license their hardware. They would of lost what billions of dollars in profit? Please try to imagine the effect on the profit if ATI or Nvidia were greedy and tryed to have a monopoly. Imagine how much LESS money they would of made. Imagine how fewer advertisements there would of been for their cards. It is because of their licensing that they have hundreds of different companies each making their cards, and paying to advertise for them out of their own pocket. It is because of hundreds of companies advertising and promoting their products that they are so successful. It is THIS which Apple turned down in 1986, and it is THIS that cost them billions of dollars in profit.

I thought there would be a lot of conversation on this topic when I brought it up. I'm not sure if it is because people do not understand what I'm saying or if they do not believe me when I say Apple lost billions of dollars over trying to be a monopoly. Don't think most people can imagine the chain of events. It is like trying to imagine what would of happened to ATI or Nvidia if one or the other did not license their hardware. Imagine that, then you can understand how critical a mistake Apple made.

You do realize that you posted that argument on your other board name "living_joke" right?

If you're going to make multiple accounts to increase your chance of winning prizes you may want to pay closer attention :eek:

[living_joke]

You do realize that you posted that argument on your other board name "living_joke" right?

If you're going to make multiple accounts to increase your chance of winning prizes you may want to pay closer attention :eek:

Uc-Ker is my room mate. We shair the same apartment and sometimes shair computers. I must of typed that message on his computer without realizing that it was not me logged in.

To avoid a misunderstanding, I will remove myself from the contest. I deleted my entry and my room mate deleted his. We'll stick around though on the forum.

Am still anxious to hear what people think of my theory of Apple losing billions of dollars due to refusing to license their hardware back when the Macintosh was born.