Dave McLauchlan of the Windows Media group all but says outright that Zune will support Windows Media subscription stores, and I think with third parties still making devices, PFS remains important. In fact, if anything, a successful Zune could help shake Apple's stranglehold on the market. I don't want to act like I'm drinking the Kool-Aid ... well, okay, I don't think Microsoft drinks Kool-Aid; let's say latte ... but there are plenty of reasons to believe this.
Furthermore, I don't think there's any reason to believe that manufacturers going off and building their own second-rate connectivity and store will help. (Ahem, Sony.)
MS never said anything about PFS other than Zune wouldn't be certified; blogs have just assumed the rest, and perhaps not correctly so.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I'm sorry, but I don't see Microsoft abandoning PlaysForSure just because Zune isn't certified:
http://createdigitalmusic.com/index.php?s=playsforsure
Dave McLauchlan of the Windows Media group all but says outright that Zune will support Windows Media subscription stores, and I think with third parties still making devices, PFS remains important. In fact, if anything, a successful Zune could help shake Apple's stranglehold on the market. I don't want to act like I'm drinking the Kool-Aid ... well, okay, I don't think Microsoft drinks Kool-Aid; let's say latte ... but there are plenty of reasons to believe this.
Furthermore, I don't think there's any reason to believe that manufacturers going off and building their own second-rate connectivity and store will help. (Ahem, Sony.)
MS never said anything about PFS other than Zune wouldn't be certified; blogs have just assumed the rest, and perhaps not correctly so.