Rajeev Mantri

Microsoft's iPod Killer Emerges -- Should Apple be Scared? You Bet! (AAPL, MSFT)

Providing free songs to switch to Microsoft players? Hah, is that desperation or what.

Microsoft plans to launch the player by year-end - is Apple going to sit still doing nothing till then? Apple has taken the initiative to make its own products obsolete - the iPod mini is a case in point. Surely, they also have a newer iPod coming out for the holiday season.

I am a college student, and these days you see so many Mac laptops, its quite incredible (I switched to Mac myself a couple of months ago). Apple's new offer of giving free iPod nanos to MacBook buyers is also quite a hit with students. Mr. Ballmer has to think of something other than simply buying users for Microsoft's product.