Posted by Roger Merriman on 06/14/06 11:23

RichardK <atari@NOSPAMbtconnect.com> wrote:

> NRen2k5 wrote:
>
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>
> >> Is it really that hard to grasp WHY Apple dominates this market? All
> >> the industry analysis said "iPods are too expensive", but Apple knew
> >> that music is important to people; make it easy and useful, and
> >> they'll buy it, and people did.
> >
> > Apple knew that marketing and lock-ins work.
>
> What lock-ins, you retard. This is 2001 I'm talking about. iTMS came out
> WAY after the iPod was a success.
>
> Richard

if memory serves it was itunes then ipod then they added the itunes
store capablity to itunes.

itunes was orginally just a good way to orgnise and play your music, i
used it long before i had a ipod.

i have a fair bit of apple fair play now particully audio books which
have advantages coming from apple mainly they are book markble that next
time i play the file it rembers where i left off from and it retains
this if i turn it off and is synroniged from ipod to itunes so could
start story on computer and finish it on the ipod say with out having to
try to work out where you left off, some thing if your dealing with
70hrs or more of audio is very useful.

roger

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