In the internet-game-of-telephone, several sites are reposting rumors of a Sony/Apple collaboration on the upcoming Playstation 3.
The source of all of these is a single forum post. Claims include iTunes/PS3 interoperability, and iPod/PS3 syncing.
Freg3000 said:Sony to favor iTunes and the iPod over Connect and the ND-H5ZJSKALDN or whatever it is called? Don't think so.
homerjward said:sony's new music phone (w800i i think) plays aac so maybe they'll license fairplay for itunes shtuff?
ohhh yeah connect.... how is that doing again?eva01 said:i just saw a commericial for the Connect thing from Sony, so i doubt this is happening
ASZ993 said:Hint: There already IS collaboration between Sony and Apple. Look at Sony's NAS-CZ1,it can stream iTMS files (Protected AAC).
MarcelV said:I don't see anything on the protected AAC on Sony Europe's press release. Are you sure about that?
PSP and iPod are not even remotely close to competitors. Completely different markets and only a very very small number of people would buy a PSP over an iPod for listening to music. PSP is more threat to the rather non-existant mobile video player market.zap2 said:thatt would be cool( and give my friends who use sony and windows and me who use apple and xbox to talk about,) BUT i saw the psp as sony trying to take back the market they lost after the ipod came out and took over the walkman thing
Dreyfus said:including Musicmatch1, Windows Media Player2, iTunes3, and SonicStage4
There is no claim that the device actually plays the files
Telomar said:PSP and iPod are not even remotely close to competitors. Completely different markets and only a very very small number of people would buy a PSP over an iPod for listening to music. PSP is more threat to the rather non-existant mobile video player market.
plinkoman said:why do people keep thinking psp and iPod are competitors??