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My facetiousness didn't quite carry across in that last line. I think if it truly was a colossal inconvenience for the customer, you would have seen people stop

• notahacker 16y ago
  On the contrary, if it was a colossal inconvenience for the customer to lose all their songs, they'd make sure you didn't upgrade your old iPod to a competing mp3 player. Sure, they happily bought the first generation iPod and weren't exactly distraught when that meant they'd have to replace it with another iPod, but then most consumers weren't shedding tears over being pushed into using Win 9x/IE in the 1990s. Apple's defence of course is that the music industry compelled them to create a DRM format which was standard practice at the time.