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Posted by RichardK on 06/11/06 10:29
NRen2k5 wrote:
>> Are you missing the point that Apple UTTERLY DOMINATES the market?
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> Are you missing the point that closed formats are BAD?
Closed formats are what you are going to get, WMA or M4P. Sorry. Just
because more devices can use WMA files, WMA is not less closed; it's
still controlled by Microsoft.
>> Doing worse than Sony did with Betamax? Suuure.
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> *Whoosh*
You might consider that failing to license is doing worse, I don't.
Bottom line is success, market penetration and sales.
>>> And the 250 can't be used with iTunes and neither can the PSP.
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>> So?
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>
> So how wonderful must iTunes be as an MP3 app that doesn't support MP3
> players.
It does support other players. It CURRENTLY doesn't support the e200s (I
think it does support older Sandisk units) or PSP. Easily fixed with a
third-party app anyway. Hell, with PocketMac (and Missing Sync, I
think), it even supports PDAs.
>> iTunes is not preventing me from using other sources or devices.
>> Period. I can copy music (from iTunes, using iPSP) to my PSP, I can
>> put music on the Sansa.
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> Anybody can copy music from their computer's file manager. iTunes, by
> design, is made to work with iPod only.
And iTunes phones, and some MP3 players, and anything anyone cares to
write a plugin for (I've had a beta Archos Jukebox plugin in the past).
Richard
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