Mais uma ameaça (?) ao iPod?

A grande vantagem deste sistema é que não necessita de estar ligado a um computador para fazer a gestão do programa de música - como o iPod:

«"Today, a small New York City company called MusicGremlin Inc. is rolling out a fresh approach to denting the iPod hegemony: the wireless music player. Its new $299 Gremlin portable player has built-in Wi-Fi wireless networking, so it can download songs from an accompanying  subscription service directly, without requiring the use of a personal computer.

"Not only that, but Gremlin users can wirelessly exchange entire songs right from their players, legally, as long as both the sender and receiver are subscribers to the MusicGremlin Direct service, which costs $14.99 a month. This process, called 'beaming,' allows you to share songs with your Gremlin-toting pals, no matter where they are, without ever using a computer or a CD burner. You can even peer into other users' Gremlins to see what they're playing and what they've downloaded, and pluck any song you like from their devices, if they give you permission...»

fonte: http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/061506/index.asp, via Wall Street Journal Online.