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Posted by Bonge Boo! on 06/12/06 21:24
>>>> 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.
>>> Anybody can copy music from their computer's file manager. iTunes, by
>>> design, is made to work with iPod only.
>>
>> Which sums up why you don't have a clue why iTunes/iPod won. Everyone CAN'T
>> copy music from the computers file manager. A large proportion of the
>> computer using population haven't a feckin' clue where their music is
>> stored, what My Computer is, or that there Mp3 player MIGHT mount as a
>> drive.
>
> Yes, they do. You really underestimate the PC using population.
Mainly because I have to deal with them day in day out. You don't get it.
Most PC/Mac users have the curiousity of a goldfish
>> People like you are the ones that design the crappy pieces of shite that
>> fail to compete with Apple. Why? Because you don't understand the general
>> public. And because of that, Apple will continue to dominate until someone
>> makes something easier and better.
>
> No. The other manufacturers fail to compete with Apple because they
> don't have the budget or even the ability to make an online music store
> like iTMS (because iTMS already has the market and artists who may or
> may not have signed with other services in the beginning certainly don't
> now).
Bollox. The iPod/iTunes axis is the clincher, iTMS is just another way of
cementing the dominance.
>> Get it into your thick head. Apple won because they have a better solution
>> for the great unwashed masses.
> Get it into your thick head: is unfairly milking the situation for all
> they can.
How is unfair? No one is forced to buy an iPod, use iTunes, or use the iTMS.
People choose to because its better.
>> I have about 6,000 songs on my computer, about 100 from iTMS, of which I
>> paid for about 20. At any time all that music could be moved to another
>> computer of music player with no effort at all. Not very restrictive.
>
> Can it be played on any MP3 player other than the iPod which you may buy
> in the future? No. Seems restrictive to me.
Course it can. Burn to AIFF, reimport as MP3. Its my music I can do with it
as I wish.
> Apple is unwilling to license M4P, not because it would bring some chaos
> to the market, but because they don't want to license players for $x
> when they can sell players for $y, knowing full well that another player
> will blow their iPod out of the water.
The idea that people buy iPods just because you can buy music from iTMS is
the most stupid suggestion you've ever made. People buy iPods because the
software that lets you use them is easy. ITMS is an afterthought.
And why should Apple licence it? They made the market. If anyone wants to
establish their own standard, let them exert some market pressure. By making
1/2 decent competition.
Microsoft have their own DRM, Playforsure, etc. There are choices. But at
present everyone aggres Apple are doing it better. When that situation
changes I expect Apple may try licensing.
Apple are not going to open up their DRM becaue they know full well that
music is just a tiny slice of the future content download market. And iTunes
and iTMS are the gateway. Let Google and Microsoft come up with a better
interface and they'll be able to play.
If you don't like iPods, just don't use iTunes. And stop whinging.
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