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...China, the anti-Mao or, later, the chip fabricator, the hardware producer, is now the bustling cultural center of Greater China. Of course the mainland still dominates the Chinese world in geopolitical and economic terms, but whose soap operas are they watching in Bangkok and whose Mando-pop CDs are they buying in Kuala Lumpur? Outside of Japan, Taiwan is Asia's leading pop cultural exporter. And when you're exporting your music, movies and TV shows, that means other countries are interested in what you think, who you are. The upshot is a state that confidently and pragmatically goes...
...such as travel guides. Palm hopes to compete against Handspring by offering clip-on gadgets like cameras and phones. But come on, Palmies! Do I need another incompatible storage medium? I already have SmartDisks, CompactFlash disks, SanDisks and Memory Sticks coming out of my ears, not to mention floppies, CDs and DVDs. Now I'm supposed to embrace Secure Digital disks and MultimediaCards? I think...
Best of all, iBook will save you around 2,000 big ones. Running from $1,299 for bare bones to $1,799 for a version that plays DVDs and burns CDs, it won't break the bank like a $2,599 to $3,997 titanium model. Did Apple make sacrifices for that price? Sure. The screen is only 12 in., though it has excellent resolution. And you have to put CDs on a tray rather than slot them in like bread in a toaster...
...Granted, the average PC owner probably has significantly less music on his hard drive, for now. But it has become axiomatic that MP3s are the future of music. It's been drilled into us that we're all going to dump our CDs given time, and that constant digital downloads, paid for on a song by song basis, will eventually take the place of trips to Tower Records. Given an easy-to-use system of micropayments, will it really take that long for Joe Consumer to pack his hard drive with the musical equivalent of a small European country...
...summer, it's high time RJP set itself up for the deluge. No one else is in such a good position, with millions of users and with MusicNet working just down the corridor. Yet the only update planned to the service is to allow users to burn special MP3 CDs as well as the regular...