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December 01, 2003

More Snarky Criticism of the NY Times

This is from an article about the proliferation of new online music sites such as iTunes. Read carefully:

Mr. Wiser said the expanding range of music would coincide with the growing number of devices consumers will use for playing digital downloads. "It'll move outside the study and into the living room," he said.

Sony's RoomLink, for example, is a $200 device that wirelessly connects a Sony Vaio comer to a television, so users can play downloaded tracks over their home theater systems, among other things.

Other computer makers and consumer electronics companies sell competing devices or are working on them. Sometimes the devices are marketed alongside specific online music stores. Napster, for instance, rolled out the Samsung Napster MP3 player this fall. It directly connects to the Napster download service and includes an FM transmitter for listening to burned tracks.

Okay, now did that make any sense? Hmm, move outside of the "study" and into the "living room?" I didn't know the huddling masses in fly-over country were even allowed to have studies, I thought they were purely for the elitists. And what's a "Vaio comer?" And how would an "FM transmitter" be useful for "listening to burned tracks?"

The world wonders.

Posted by crandal at December 1, 2003 07:53 AM