News alert: Bill Gates predicts end of iPod craze

So Bill Gates spent part of his week dissing the iPod in a German newspaper, according to this story on the CNN site. (Suggested headline: Auf wiedersehen Apple.) His theory—or was this just an exercise in sour grapes?—was that people would start to migrate their audio onto their MP3-playing cell phones. At first, I thought the whole line of thinking a bunch of malarkey. I mean, I could play MP3s on my cell phone, but it’s my cell phone, you know? But then I started to think more—about how I was vaguely annoyed that even though I had recently managed to cut down on the devices I lug around by merging my PDA with my phone, I had found a new device I can’t go anywhere without: my iPod.