Posted by Bonge Boo! on 06/10/06 12:05

On 10/6/06 12:57, in article 1hgpvw7.11mw1udr8ujt4N%jim@magrathea.plus.com,
"Jim" <jim@magrathea.plus.com> wrote:

>>>> Wrong. The iPod has a 70% market share thanks to unfair business
>>>> practice and successful marketing.
>>>
>>> And I'm *sure* you'll be able to back up the 'unfair business practice'
>>> bit with some hard data. Won't you?
>>
>> Yes. iTunes Music Store is locked to iPod and iPod is locked to iTunes
>> Music Store. My source is iTunes itself. But I guess in your fantasy
>> world that's a biased source.
>
> You still haven't shown me where that's an unfair business practice. It
> would be unfair if Apple *didn't* tell you that iTunes and iPod are
> locked together but you yourself have admitted they do.

Seeing that no-one forced anyone to buy an iPod or music via ITMS...

Ipod/iTunes won because everything else is crap by comparison. On Tuesday I
was with a customer who bought a Philips MP3 Player that comes bundled with
Musicmatch. It was a truly shit combination.

They dumped it and bought a Shuffle.

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