Grentz

Firewire was Apple's competition to USB, but Apple did work on USB a bit.

Apple seems to start somethings, dump them, then let others pick them up and make them super good. USB for example is now mostly worked on by Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lucent, Microsoft, NEC, and Philips.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB


They do have some revolutionary things, just they have a lot of overpriced stuff that gets in the way/overshadows of the revolutionary stuff IMO.

reese

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/10/xb...-online-media/

Apparently it will be much more than an mp3 player

reese

Here it is!


http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/m...r-dubbed-zune/

Grentz

Supposedly the Xbox team is working on an MP3/Video/Game player that will tackle the iPod and PSP.

They are also going to have an xbox music/video store along with some other extras. All very early stuff, but it is supposedly hitting by christmas 2k6.