Posted by Dave Martindale on 10/18/05 22:07

William Davis <davisbill@mac.com> writes:

>Just for the record, I don't think that Apple is really "selling
>hardware" here. Nor are they "selling software."

>They're building a digital distribuition network for creative content
>that happens to have hardware and software components. Note that since
>the implementation of iTunes for the PC, this is not a "strictly Mac"
>model. Also note that, as other posters have mentioned, apple software
>(Quicktime) is NOT strictly necessary for viewing.

>The success or failure of iTunes - and by extension iTunes for Video -
>is that it's a digital distribution model for making it EASY for users
>to satisfy their desire for LICENSED creative content.

But I don't want to buy any licensed creative content from Apple's
store. I want to listen (legally) to all of the content that I already
own on CDs, and I want to do it using WMA-compressed audio (because it
takes less space). Apple's iPods don't work for that, when they could
easily do so - without losing any of their existing capability as part
of their "digital distribution network".

Dave

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