{"id":4738,"date":"2006-09-03T18:33:09","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T18:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/samsung-mp3-service.html"},"modified":"2006-09-03T18:33:09","modified_gmt":"2006-09-03T18:33:09","slug":"samsung-mp3-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/consumer-electronics\/samsung-mp3-service.html","title":{"rendered":"Samsung MP3 Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>There is so much competition in the market to take out the iPod and it seems obvious that the synergy of iTunes and iPod is a tough to beat with a player or service alone. So while companies like <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/consumer-electronics\/sandisk-takes-on-the-ipod.html\">SanDisk<\/a> focus on devices, others like Samsung are focusing on the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB115713701130551937.html?mod=technology_main_whats_news\">service and the devices<\/a> (WSJ Subscription required &#8212; here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2006\/09\/01\/1854420.htm\">AP version<\/a> of similar info).<\/p>\n<p>In addition Samsung is trying to out-innovate Apple with features like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2006\/09\/01\/1854488.htm\">bluetooth<\/a> &#8212; ok not so innovative but still a great addition to an MP3 player. Here is another <a href=\"http:\/\/ipcommunications.tmcnet.com\/news\/2006\/09\/01\/198160.htm\">Samsung differentiator<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is so much competition in the market to take out the iPod and it seems obvious that the synergy of iTunes and iPod is a tough to beat with a player or service alone. So while companies like SanDisk focus on devices, others like Samsung are focusing on the service and the devices (WSJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[347,442,349,284,1001],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}