SAN JOSE, Calif. — In a move to expand its systems business, SanDisk Corp. unveiled what the company claims is the world's largest capacity, flash-based MP3 player. The flash-memory product company also cut the prices on its older MP3 player models.
Priced at $249.99, the new Sansa e280 is the latest MP3 player in SanDisk's flagship e200 series. The new 8-gigabyte (GB) device features a microSD expansion slot, allowing expansion to 10-GB of music — or 2,500 songs — with an optional SanDisk 2-GB microSD card.
In conjunction with the rollout, SanDisk (Milpitas, Calif.) has lowered its prices on the entire Sansa e200 line of products, including the existing 2-, 4- and 6-GB models. Current pricing on the Sansa e200 product line includes a 2-GB flash-based player for under $140.
SanDisk competes in the MP3 player market against Apple, Creative, Samsung, among others. Microsoft plans to go head-to-head with Apple for a piece of the portable music device market, but doesn't expect to be an overnight sensation in the field.
Recently, Verizon Wireless unveiled a device that takes mobile phones a step closer in form and function to Apple Computer Inc.'s popular iPod media player.
But SanDisk appears to be going after Apple Computer, the world's largest MP3 player maker. The rapidly growing worldwide market for flash-based and hard disk drive MP3 players will jump from 140 million units in 2005 to 286 million by 2010, according to In-Stat Inc.
SanDisk is looking to boost its share in the business. The dimensions of its Sansa line are 1.7- x 3.5- x 0.5-in. The TFT color screen size for the unit is said to be 1.8-inch.
SanDisk said it provides an open digital rights management system, which allows users to purchase songs or access subscription download services from numerous sources. For instant access to "millions of digital songs," SanDisk said the Sansa e200 series players support Microsoft PlaysForSure technology. It also has a microSD expansion slot for additional memory capacity and supports SanDisk's TrustedFlash content cards.
SanDisk is not known as a major player in the MP3 market. The company, a leader in flash-memory subsystems for imaging and audio storage, is acquiring one of its largest solid-state memory competitors, Msystems Ltd. of Israel, in a stock transaction worth approximately $1.35 billion.[/PIE]
So to the Ummah,send the message out,do not buy this item do not suppor the murder of the brothers and sisters.
We are not there to fight with them in arms but can we be there with spirit and coin.
So boycott this.
Inshallah,most of my friend in Singapore have already rejected to sell this item and made thier intention clear.
I believe this is a good thread as it is of value for all people to be informed of the sources of all items they buy and make informed decisions about buying on knowledge for buying or not buying. I also suggest that a factor to be considered is to who would be affected by a mass boycott of any product. It is always advisable to find out who are the actual owners, who are the employees and who are the distributors and retailers of a product.
Personal expeience has taught me that in a boycott the ones who get affected the most are the emplyees and the retailers. Those are factors to consider for any boycott for any purpose.
For all you know 99% of the workers could be your fellow Muslims who need the job and money to feed there kids. if a boycott were to happen these Muslims might be out of a job and basically they only have there fellow Muslims then to blame for making it so they cannot feed there families.
But then again, companies that make MP3 players do not nessesarily market heavily to the Arab world.
SanDisk is not known as a major player in the MP3 market. The company, a leader in flash-memory subsystems for imaging and audio storage, is acquiring one of its largest solid-state memory competitors, Msystems Ltd. of Israel, in a stock transaction worth approximately $1.35 billion.
SanDisk is buying the cmpany so in effect Sandisk has removed a Jewish company. Msystems Ltd. will no longer be a Jewish co. after it is bought by SanDisk.
Many of these companies in israel do have Arab workers. And you hurt your brothers when you make boycotts sometimes.
You should do research.
Yep. Like I've said once, Israel has a large Muslim minority and they are knitted into the Israeli societal fabric. Question yourselves before embarking on journeys.
"This world is a blank price tag, and whatever value you put on it, is what its worth to you. I have made this world priceless and worthless, so therefore I have placed my value in the afterlife."
Boycotts have to be very well investigated before being undertaken. Many times a boycott will end up hurting the very people it was meant to help. Several years ago here in the US when we had big cuts in the auto industry. One of our states had decided to stop using toyotos and switch to fords for the state vehicles, to preserve American jobs. After the deal was concluded it turned out that the toyotos were manufactured in the US but the fords were manufactured in Canada so the boycott to save American jobs actually lost American Jobs.
You can not tell by the name and location of a company who owns it or who is employed by it. Boycotts are difficult to evaluate in advance. Her in the US many compnies are charted as having their head quarters in Delaware, so if somebody decided to boycott the state of delaware by stopping to buy products from Delaware it would actually be a boycott against nearly every state except Delaware.
There are calls to boycott Coca Cola, Carrefour, McD, KFC ... and I've seen 80% of the employees in these companies in Malaysia are Muslims.
So.......
A lot depends on WHY you are boycotting, I think. If it is the activities of the COMPANY (as opposed to a government) you are protesting about, I don't think the nationality or religion of the employees is relevant. Coca Cola, for example, is responsible for huge amounts of water pollution in India that has a serious effect on the local people - why should the religion of those turning the taps and pressing the buttons matter? That pollution doesn't somehow become "OK" just because some are muslim, most are Hindu, or whatever.
And thus the weakness of the Ummah is made apparent..
They fear to boycott thinking that it will endanger the arabs working in these industries.
Isnt this what the west call sanctions?
Isnt this is what is ebing done to muslim coutnries world wide?
Did any muslim protest?
No
and yet here youa re being asked to boycott product that support the Holocasut of muslim in Lebanon and Isreal,,you second guess..
Astarfillah,trully it is not as it should be,the investemnt by sandisk in affect pushes the Isrealis standard and economy.
We ask and say our muslim leaders are corrupt ,to beholden tot he western world but here you are being asked to NOT SUPPORT IN YOUR OWN ANME ONLY...but you digress..
Hyprocrisy..
As for other altrenatives,support muslim products like mecca cola,or such thing..Support muslim products and empower the ummah.
SanDisk is buying the cmpany so in effect Sandisk has removed a Jewish company. Msystems Ltd. will no longer be a Jewish co. after it is bought by SanDisk.
Salaam,
All products made by Isreal in Isreal should be boycott.
It is simple,it is called a muslim sanction.
And thus the weakness of the Ummah is made apparent..
Perhaps the desire not to harm brothers and sisters is a strength
There is no fear in boycotting. The fear is in boycotting with out knowledge. At the moment the only thing I know is that the company is in Israel and it is being bought by a company that is head quartered in California. I do not know who the new owners will be, from the names of much of the board members it may be a Chinese Company
Isnt this what the west call sanctions?
Not exactly. In sanctions the sanctions are aimed at the country, not the people. Sanctions are never made to eliminate livlihoods they are made to prohibit the distribution of certain items.
Isnt this is what is ebing done to muslim coutnries world wide?
I can not think of any Islamic country that has any sanctions imposed against it.
Did any muslim protest?
No
and yet here youa re being asked to boycott product that support the Holocasut of muslim in Lebanon and Isreal,,you second guess..
Astarfillah,trully it is not as it should be,the investemnt by sandisk in affect pushes the Isrealis standard and economy.
Actually it will pull the the companies profit out of Israel. SanDisk wants to make a profit, not support Israel.
We ask and say our muslim leaders are corrupt ,to beholden tot he western world but here you are being asked to NOT SUPPORT IN YOUR OWN ANME ONLY...but you digress..
Until we know all the facts boycotting sankisk could harm the Palestinians more than it disrupts the Israelis. Israel does not seem to be upset over loosing a Jewish firm to a non-Jewish foreign company.
Hyprocrisy..
As for other altrenatives,support muslim products like mecca cola,or such thing..Support muslim products and empower the ummah.
I will agree we need to support Muslim products and products made in Islamic countries.
I assume the LOL is that currently the only product purchased in large quantities from the mid-east is oil. I tried to find other products and I can not find any major export products from the mid-east except oil
OOps I just discovered Mecca Cola is a French product.
Coke is no longer it. Or at least it won't be if Tawfik Mathlouthi has anything to do with it.
Ultimately it is the consumer who will make the decision
Coca-Cola
Mr Mathlouthi is the French entrepreneur behind Mecca Cola, a new soft drink designed to cash in on anti-American sentiment around the world.
He hopes to make Mecca Cola the soft drink of choice for Muslims everywhere and thus push out that icon of American capitalism Coca-Cola.
It is all about combating "America's imperialism and Zionism by providing a substitute for American goods and increasing the blockade of countries boycotting American goods," Mr Mathlouthi told BBC News Online.
It is not the first time Coca-Cola has been the target of a "buy Muslim" challenge. Zamzam Cola, an Iranian drink named after a holy spring in Mecca, has won an enthusiastic reception in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
Coca-Cola has dismissed Mr Mathlouthi's move, saying he had "identified a commercial opportunity which involves the exploitation in Europe of the difficult and complex situation in the Middle East".
"Ultimately it is the consumer who will make the decision," the company said in a statement.
I assume the LOL is that currently the only product purchased in large quantities from the mid-east is oil. I tried to find other products and I can not find any major export products from the mid-east except oil
OOps I just discovered Mecca Cola is a French product.
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