CES is the poorest place to do that; you can’t compare a product until it’s finalized and released. And that’s true of almost nothing there.

They already do that.

I suppose we could fill the gift guide with missives to buy NOTHING, FOR ANYONE, EVER.

I don’t know or care about the relationship BuzzFeed has with Rdio; editorial is produced and run separately from advertising. I don’t know what they’re doing, they don’t know what I’m doing.  I wrote this specifically about the new app because it’s one I like a lot. That’s what we do with products we like at FWD, and that’s what most consumer-oriented tech writing is about — products, the things people use. And while the Spotify and Rdio services are similar in the sense that they’re both subscription music services, my headline, and this piece, are very much about the app.  We’ve talked about some of the issues here, if you’re looking for that. And you’re probably correct that the model’s not sustainable, which we talked about a bit here. In the end it’ll probably be just Spotify remaining, precisely for that reason, and the reasons laid out in the piece you linked to.

It was more the framing of his surprise, yes.

Ugh, die.

Ooo you’re right, even though they were based on the CF form factor.

thx, fixed

That one probably is. But there will probably be an adapter.

Exactly.

It’s true that you’re not comparing Windows 8 to OS X on a store shelf somewhere, dollar to dollar. But I do think Apple pricing Snow Leopard at $30 was important in redefining what the value of a desktop OS is — it’s part of that paradigm shift. It’s a real question from a consumer perspective? “If OS X is $30, why is Windows $100?”

cool thx

Oh you clearly don’t know Mike Monteiro. That is some deep sarcasm.

That count is misleading. I’ve not flipped over to Google+ in days. But I’m signed into Gmail. Which Google counts as signing into + because the accounts are linked.

Sorry, was talking US market. See IDG’s numbers.

Uhhhh. =(

Totally fair! Adjusted the second shot. (The top shots are presented unmodified from the originals though.)

depends! if they’re showing good stuff, it’s good.