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Microsoft Fights Apple for Top Media Player Title

I’m a frequent reader of Blog Maverick, Mark Cuban’s personal weblog, because the Dallas Mavericks owner analyzes the world of business like no other entrepreneur, analyst, or corporate CEO. He recently posted about the recent acquisition of Youtube by Google Inc, and how video piracy laws are handled differently than the heavily copyrighted music industry. This spells bad news for Apple and its iPod as their market grip on video media becomes much weaker than its 80% market dominance on legal music downloads, supported by iPod and iTunes.

Apple’s internet video store doesn’t reap the same profits as did the iTunes store simply because sites like Youtube offer content free of charge. For instance, if current apple customers switched over and bought Microsoft’s new digital media rival, Zune, then proceeded to download video clips via youtube onto their Zune, how could Apple reap anymore profits from these former subscribers? They can’t, which makes the whole internet video revolution all the more interesting.

My guess is that Google strongholds the industry using Youtube as its vehicle. Then, Apple, Microsoft, and Sony will duel it out for the position as #1 personal digital media product. All this fight and struggle while Google rings the register and earns large profits.

Which do you prefer - iPod or Zune?

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