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...launch. Microsoft jumped in last week with the U.S. debut of MSN Music, which is compatible with a range of players (iTunes files only work on the iPod). Hewlett-Packard has begun selling its own Apple-authorized iPod. And Asia may soon get its first regional digital-music store; Singapore's Soundbuzz, co-founded by a former MTV Asia exec, plans to move into Hong Kong, India and Taiwan by year's end. Have the music biz's blues turned to blue sky? Many think so. Downloading "will be as big as the cell-phone market," predicts Sim Wong...
...elegance of Apple's popular iPod, there has always been one significant flaw in its setup: if you wanted to purchase music online to play on it (as opposed to just, um, appropriating songs from various file-sharing programs), you had to do so through the company's iTunes music store...
That changed in late July when RealNetworks released a beta version of a technology called Harmony that mimics iPod's copy-protection software. That means the songs sold on its Real Music Store can now also run on Apple's player...
Apple said it was "stunned" at Real's move and has threatened to update the iPod so that Real songs will no longer work on it. But this may be just the beginning for Apple. Several rivals are getting ready to launch competing (and coexisting) products in the next few months that could challenge the iPod's supremacy...
...players, the iPod is the most stylish you can buy today, but chic competitors are just around the corner. The Rio Carbon, available in late August for $249, looks like a silver cigarette lighter with curved edges and has 5 GB of memory--1 GB more than the iPod mini for the same price. And Sony's Network Walkman, a 20-GB device with a squared-off design, goes on sale this month for $399. That's $100 more than a new 20-GB iPod, but the Sony is lighter and smaller. Sony claims that the battery lasts...