Posted by NRen2k5 on 06/11/06 23:41

Bonge Boo! wrote:
> On 11/6/06 01:29, in article ItJig.58232$Xx1.1073992@weber.videotron.net,
> "NRen2k5" <nomore@email.com> wrote:
>
>>> Are you missing the point that Apple UTTERLY DOMINATES the market?
>> Are you missing the point that closed formats are BAD?
>
> And mp3 is a closed format? Gosh.

iTMS uses MP3 now? Gosh.

>>>>> Wow. See, I've got a Sansa e250 organised, and I own a PSP and an
>>>>> iPaq, and I'm able to use all sorts of music sources.
>>>>
>>>> And the 250 can't be used with iTunes and neither can the PSP.
>>> So?
>> So how wonderful must iTunes be as an MP3 app that doesn't support MP3
>> players.
>
> Dimwit. Itunes is DEISGNED to work with iPods. Its free, but like a lot of
> software, to get the most out of it you have to pay. In this case, you have
> to pay for hardware.

-Whoosh-

>>> 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.

> 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).

> 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.

> 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.

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.

- NRen2k5

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