Rawr! Marketing cat fight!!

Looks like Sony was talking the talk about the Walk(man) and Apple isn't havin' it. Over at MacCentral they describe some pretty heated exchanges, mostly surrounding Sony stating their 20GB Walkman can hold more songs. But what Sony didn't say is that is only true if you compress the songs with their format ATRAC3, which is 48kbps, compared to Apple's 128kbps AAC format.

"We thought it was time to help set the record straight," Greg Joswiak, vice president of Hardware Product
Marketing at Apple, told MacCentral. "We're disappointed that Sony has chosen to mislead folks with a marketing
gimmick — we just want to make sure customers have the information so they can make an apples to apples comparison,
if you will."

"We have so many advantages over our competitors — the largest is the combination of hardware, software and
service," said Joswiak. "Our competitors realize that's an advantage that is very difficult to match and probably
unthinkable to beat. That probably breeds some desperation in how you are going to market against it — certainly that
may have gone into the thinking."

Hey Sony, we don't think you should be running around making a big deal over 3,000 lower quality songs on a player that should have came out in 2001, which only plays the proprietary ATRAC format.

And Apple, we all know you're dominating the whole MP3 player, selling music thing- but it's not cool to actually say it like that.

Sheesh, guys.  It's kind of like watching your parents fight.