As more music stores open, iTunes (like the Mac) will be seen as closed proprietary system - the only music store using Fairplay DRM and the only music store that requires an iPod. It's going to be fun to watch Apple's digital music market share dwindle down to 2%, a repeat of the Mac fiasco.

you dont even read the articles anymore do you? i mean why bother wehn your posts are absolutly devoid of reality.

By the way, M$ DRM is a closed proprietary system.

When you buy music from M$ it's only choice you get in DRM.
10 million peolple have ipods, another 10 million more will this year as well. They already VOTED on who they support and will get thier money. I dont think they are going to be seeing it being Apples fault, but Yahoo and other stores for not offering them what they want. and of course, they eventually can.

and Bush is winning the war on terror

THEN APPLE WILL HAVE TO SELL DELL BOXES RUNNING WIINDOZE XP BECUZ THAT STHE BEST SELLING AND PEOPLE WILL WANT IRIVER MP3 PLAYERS BE CUZ THEY ARE THE BEST AND PEOPLE WILL WANT XP IN THERE CARZ BECUZ ITS THE BEST.....AND...AND.....WELL.....RC TOLD ME TO SAY THESE TINGS BECUZ HIS MEDICATION HAS RUN OUT!!!



HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

RC U SILLY PHUCKING FOOL, I PISS ON YOUR SILLY WHITE, PASTY FACE!

hows burger king these days?

i bet your sorry ass is still stinging from not buying a bunch of apple stock, eh wonder bread boy?

True if all happens as you say... however, please note the articles on various sites re: Motorola. Guess what that is!!! Fairplay on a non-Apple iPod platform. The iPod need not be an Apple product. I suspect that if Sony's new players fail like the last ones, they'll choose to license the iPod platform and concentrate on all the money to be made with custom peripherals. Imagine, SONY digital camera interfacing with a SONY iPod... or SONY iPOd attached top a SONY car Radio or Home stereo or alarm clock/radio or....

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and Bush is winning the war on terror

LOL. Burned any gasoline lately?

If the iPod follows the Macintosh well then even at 2% it will still be a very profitable business for Apple and the rest of the market with the possible exception of say one or two vendors (ie Dell in the PC world) will be struggling quarter to quarter to make a profit. So again RC even "IF" you are corrrect so?

Pagan jim

iTunes and iPod dominance INCREASING, Apple on a roll.

What will RC do now?

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... I suspect that if Sony's new players fail like the last ones, they'll choose to license the iPod platform and concentrate on all the money to be made with custom peripherals ...

With Sir Howard Stringer in charge, I expect Sony to:

- bundle iTunes with Sony PCs
- sell Sony designed iPod flash
- license iPod connectivity for Sony digital CE products

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and Bush is winning the war on terror

I haven't seen any kamikaze planes lately...have you?
Look at the numbers folks, the market share...face the imusic. APPLE WON the war of digital music, all the competition can do is, sabre rattle.

"As more music stores open, iTunes (like the Mac) will be seen as closed proprietary system"

It was a closed proprietary system when it opened, it was a closed proprietary system when its sales shot into the stratosphere, and it was a closed proprietary system when it became the dominant digital music store. Do you see where this is going? It doesn't matter that it's a closed proprietary system.

Apple is the M$ of download music

Last I checked, I didn't need an iPod to use the iTunes music store.
Why does RC keep saying things like that?

Oh yeah. Cuz he's a troll.