RSSSony: The iPod is Like a CD
By the Betanews Staff | Published July 18, 2007, 11:20 AM
Sony on Wednesday bolstered its support for Apple's iPod by introducing a new boombox and clock radio that enable customers to plug their iPods directly into the devices. Once a fierce rival of Apple, Sony is now taking the position that the iPod is like a CD and has decided to embrace it.
"Consumers are treating the iPod as a format, like the compact disc, which is why Sony is now delivering audio products to support it," said Sony director Andrew Sivori. The $100 ICF-C1iP clock radio works like other iPod-based clocks, offering a docking connector at the top. Also $100, the ZS-S2iP boombox includes a radio and CD player, and a retractable dock tray for the iPod. Both produces will be available in August in black and white colors.
Sony resisted as long as they could.
But their support for the iPod on their car stereos, at least, is rather pathetic…
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|If ya can't beat 'em.... join 'em, eh Sony?
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|Now, this is what I call Innovation.
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|How the heck is this innovation?
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|it's ... ummm ... sarcasm.
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|Actually... if this clocks works like other SONY clock radios this is a great thing. I am now on my third Clock Radio - iHome, JBL OnTime, and the iMode. Each time I try they get worse, the iMode is certainly the worst sounding, the JBL kept loosing its marbles but sounded great, iHome was ok.
None of these have a useful interface for setting time and alarm. I know from my past SONY clock, that they get that part.
I am going to give it a try as soon as I can find a place to buy one...
Thank you SONY.
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|You mean iInnovationwalkman?
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|Sure, their *exactly* like Cds. Ya know, except for the part about them being nothing alike and all....
But hey, if it doesn't look like a CD, doesn't act like a CD, hell, it must be.
Yes, you can dock them, but that's more analogous to plugging speakers into a Walkman (or, perhaps...an iPod?) than putting a CD in a CD player.
*shakes head*
Marketing people. You can't live with 'em, and it's still illegal to use them for target practice.
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|Maybe they have found a way to install a root kit on the ipod so it would be like a CD.
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|Great comment, SGD. You win. :)
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|Bad analogy, a flash memory device of some type would be like a CD. It can only store information and can be plugged into devices to be read. The ipod not only stores the information but also plays it back, so it's more like a CD Player with the CD built in. Not to mention the iPod is a pretty expensive "CD". If I wanted to play back music on a digital boombox wouldn't I want to use MUCH cheaper storage like SD or CompactFlash? I think so. This is just a deal they made with Apple. They realized they could never beat the iPod so they decided to use it to sell their own stuff.
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|I think what they mean by an ipod is like a CD, is that it "docks" with its product. Much like you add a CD to a CD player to hear music.
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|They could also be referring to how common iPods are.
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|yeah that's part of it. the whole is that they're viewing it like a medium and creating their own line of stupid peripherals for it.
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|This is what they mean, did any of you read the article or did the analogy simply go right over your head? What they mean by saying the iPod is like a CD is that it is the dominant playback medium worldwide, so instead of trying to fight it they should join in and mutually benefit.
It's similar to what they had to do with VHS in the 80's. VHS was dominant so instead of continuing to try to fight it with Betamax, Sony gave up and joined in because it was the dominant medium.
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|aka if you can't beat em join em.
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