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Posted by NRen2k5 on 06/12/06 01:21
RichardK wrote:
> NRen2k5 wrote:
> =
>> Your idiocy is noted - you can't play Napster tracks on an iPod and
>> that was my point. I guess you completely missed the "refuted,
>> goodnight".
>
> The reason you can't play Napster is that they use a protection scheme
> that isn't supported by 70% of shipped personal digital music devices.
And there is no reason for that other than that Apple doesn't want
anything cutting into iTMS profits even one bit.
> The reason that the 70% of devices are iPods is partly that Napster's
> terms are absolutely dreadful and restrictive compared to iTMS.
No.
> It's Apple's technology.
Which part of it do you purport to belong to Apple?? The FairPlay DRM
which was made by Veridisc, or the AAC content which was made by MPEG?
Or maybe iTunes, which was made by Casady & Greene?
> No-one is forced to buy it. If their
> combination is better and more appealing than Microsoft and some other
> firm's creations, then well done Apple.
Once you buy an iPod, your only online music store is iTMS. This is,
what, the twentyfifth time I've had to repeat this?
> (T'other day, I priced up a Creative HD based player; it's marginally
> more expensive on Amazon than the iPod. Also, the battery life for WMA
> is HALF that of MP3 - so people, WMA files are bad for the environment.
> Less battery life=more need to recharge, replace cells or whatever).
You only checked Amazon? You only compared one Creative player?
Let me guess. It was the Zen Vision.
- NRen2k5
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