Report: Gates Says IPod Success Won't Last - New York Times

FUD - fear uncertainty and doubt.
Apple and MS will fight over HDTV as the ITunes/Ipod morphs into a HDTV device based on the Mini Mac.

This is Gates trying to create doubt over Apple's viability.

MS is going to position the XBOX as a HDTV device and probably add capabilities to play downloadable HDTV content.

Problem: MS XBOX 360 is an incremental jump over the XBOX and Playstation - if it's not backwards compatible with legacy XBOX apps, MS will have a stinker on their hands. More...

Report: Gates Says IPod Success Won't Last - New York Times: "''I don't think the success of the iPod can continue in the long term, however good Apple may be,'' the chairman of Microsoft, the world's biggest maker of computer software, was quoted as telling German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview published Thursday.

''I think you can draw parallels here with the computer -- here, too, Apple was once extremely strong with its Macintosh and graphic user interface, like with the iPod today, and then lost its position.''"