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...Land, the swapping comes on top of another, potentially bigger threat. While college kids and geeks are swapping comedies and cartoons online via PCs, a controversial new device called ReplayTV 4000--think of a supersmart VCR--lets regular nontechie folks save television shows in pristine digital format directly from their TV, then watch them commercial free and send them over the Net to other Replay users. Hackers have even figured out ways to copy Replay files to their personal computers, where the files can be uploaded by users of Morpheus and similar programs for wider dissemination...
...Land, the swapping comes on top of another, potentially bigger threat. While college kids and geeks are swapping comedies and cartoons online via PCs, a controversial new device called ReplayTV 4000--think of a supersmart VCR--lets regular nontechie folks save television shows in pristine digital format directly from their TV, then watch them commercial free and send them over the Net to other Replay users. Hackers have even figured out ways to copy Replay files to their personal computers, where the files can be uploaded by users of Morpheus and similar programs for wider dissemination...
...PCs are unusual in the technology world in that they are basically commodity products—with Intel and Microsoft controlling the technological innovation, the “box makers” like Compaq and Dell have little basis on which to differentiate their products. In a sagging economy, conditions are ripe for a devastating price war and a consolidation of the industry, which we have in fact seen in the last year. Two of the major players—Hewlett Packard and Compaq—are doing everything wrong in response to this situation, while two of the others?...
Michael Dell, CEO of the eponymous PC maker, has prospered by being the cause of HP and Compaq’s woes. Dell builds and ships its PCs directly to customers, taking most orders through its web site and avoiding sales channels, large parts inventories (which decline in value by the hour) and anything that might drag it down. Dell’s “direct” approach enables it to make money virtually no matter what a PC costs; thus, Dell launched a major price war last year to gain market share and force its competitors into...
...software strategy, built around the Macintosh as a “digital hub,” has produced a string of successful, free multimedia applications like iTunes and iPhoto. The result: despite a meager market share of 4.5 percent, Apple, like Dell, actually made a profit selling PCs last year, something none of the other, more conventionally led companies can claim...