Electronics and Standards

Each month a new "gotta-have-it" product is released. Whether it's a phone, MP3 player or computer, new ones are still made. The highest quality ones are always something new to the table. A new feature, new design, or easier accessibility. The following company which is not "copying" off of original. Instead, they meet to the standards of the customer.

People on the internet are always complaining about how a company "copied" off of one another or how they mark "stolen idea". The fact is that companies must do this to meet consumer demand. For example, Guitar Hero was originally a game franchise that allowed players to imitate playing the guitar just a guitar. Then Rock Band came out and brought the drums and singing. Guitar Hero quickly implemented these features in their new game, Guitar Hero: World Tour. Rock Band fans were not too happy that Guitar Hero "copied" the idea full band on their own ground. For all fans of Rock Band agree with me now, hear me a second. If Guitar Hero DO NOT add drums and microphone in their game, sales would certainly diminish over time! Players not moving towards the game with more "features" that could destroy any competition that Guitar Hero has been seized.

Another example is the recently revealed Zune HD. The next Microsoft MP3 online, HD Zune boasts a host of new features. New features include 16.9 aspect ratio for widescreen video display, a web browser, chip NVIDIA Tegra, HD Radio and HDMI to an HDTV. It is the main competitor, the iPod Touch, introduced the Internet for MP3 players in the APA Safari. So, in essence, the HD Zune copied off the iPod Touch. No, he did not. The iPod Touch set a standard for MP3 players and HD Zune follow this standard. Shortly after news of HD resurfaced Zune, Apple has released information on their iPod Touch HD. HD Zune fans dislike it too. "Those Apple imitators! They said. But in their new HD on the Zune, Microsoft set their own standards: High-Powered mobile devices. Own Apple machine can not play high definition movies, she has not a chip computing power, as the NVIDIA Tegra chip (It is unclear at this stage whether the iPod Touch include HD Tegra chip or something like it, the Touch HD is also a tablet instead of a portable music player).

Yet, even with the development interests of people, there are still things that companies will not accept the standards or "copy". Always on the Microsoft vs. Apple debate, Microsoft's Zune come with an integrated radio receiver, which Apple's iPod did not. The closest you can get on the radio is Internet radio, available via the App Store on iPhone and iPod Touch only. In addition to this, if you use an iPod Touch, you can access radio in areas with Wi-fi. Microsoft Zune Marketplace, their answer to iTunes, prevails also apply to their music service subscription, Zune Pass (download as many songs as you want for $ 15 and choose 10 songs every month to keep forever ). People have asked Apple for a subscription for a while now, but Apple has never provided.