(via Slashdot): Well, someone had the guts to utter something which would border on blasphemy right now: the iPod is going to go away. “Everyone knows it; they just don’t know when…This isn’t dismissing the fact that it’s shot out of the gates on a wildly successful run and become to MP3 players what Kleenex is to tissues, but it’s eventually going to start losing share in one form or another. This could be from pricing pressure, from a competitor or two hitting some products out of the park, Apple getting lazy, or just a few missteps.”
This long post brings together a few points: the RealNetworks-iPod spat, the Motorola-Apple tie-up, and a few other points like movie iPod…
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