{"id":151,"date":"2004-01-13T23:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-13T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/net\/200401140842.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T16:00:00","slug":"thats-a-good-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/13\/thats-a-good-one\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s a good one!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After HP announced that it was going to license Apple&#8217;s iPod technology for its own MP3 player, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.co.uk\/news\/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=7643\">Microsoft&#8217;s answer<\/a> was:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>General manager of Microsoft&#8217;s Windows digital media division David Fester has suggested that iTunes&#8217; emerging dominance would be bad for consumers, because it would limit them to the iPod.<\/p>\n<p>He told journalists at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: &#8220;Windows is about choice &#8211; you can mix and match software and music player stuff. We believe you should have the same choice when it comes to music services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeaahh, riiiight &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Check the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.co.uk\/news\/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=7643\">original article<\/a> on Macworld UK for more details or the <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.slashdot.org\/apple\/04\/01\/13\/0158224.shtml\">reaction<\/a> of slashdot&#8217;s readers.<\/p>\n<p>Last time Microsoft killed me with that kind of stupid declarations was last month, when they decided that manufacturers of flash memory card using the FAT filesystem should pay Microsoft $0.25 for each unit, because Microsoft introduced the FAT filesystem back in 1976 (seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/news\/0312\/03120403microsoftisfat.asp\">dpreview.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After HP announced that it was going to license Apple&#8217;s iPod technology for its own MP3 player, Microsoft&#8217;s answer was: General manager of Microsoft&#8217;s Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}