Posted by NRen2k5 on 06/12/06 23:51

Bonge Boo! wrote:
> 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

So then why do you make them use software when they can do the most
direct, logical thing, which is drag-and-drop?

>> 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.

Keep telling yourself that. It doesn't make it true.

>>> 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.

Really? SO I CAN PLAY NAPSTER TRACKS ON THE IPOD AND ITUNES TRACKS ON
ANOTHER PLAYER?!

>>> 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.

1) Most users will not know how to do that.
2) That reduces the quality which is unacceptable considering that the
original track was already lossy-compressed.

>> 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.

I have already dispelled that - drag-and-drop is better.

> 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.

Because that's how the media market works. Look at vinyl, cassettes,
CD's, VHS, LD, DVD, SACD. Do you see how it works?

> 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.

Thankfully it may just be too late by then.

> 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.

Which says nothing. A suggestion: Drop the pretentious marketing
language bullshit and use your noodle a little.

> 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.

I am not whining. You are posting unwanted, off-topic propaganda
bullshit. Now get the fuck off of this newsgroup (alt.music.mp3).

- NRen2k5

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