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100% agree. I hate that iTunes store. I'd really like to legally buy an MP3 for my wife's Creative Zen and yet I have to install iTunes? Hell, I can't even s
by hopeless 18y ago
100% agree. I hate that iTunes store. I'd really like to legally buy an MP3 for my wife's Creative Zen and yet I have to install iTunes? Hell, I can't even see if they stock the track. Nah, don't think I'll bother thank you very much. I'll go and buy the CD from Amazon.
I think the browser/html/http combination are perfectly capable of delivering MP3 files but I guess that's not proprietary enough for Apple.
- bdotdub 18y agoI think Apple is okay with Creative Zen owners not buying MP3s from them. They're only targeting iPhone/iPod owners, which has by far the largest market share. The trouble of getting the iTunes store onto the web (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=242316 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=242316) would not be worth it because they already have the largest market share in MP3 players AND in MP3 selling. So I don't think they mind. People can complain all they want, but as long as Apples earning money, they won't be sad about it.
- hopeless 18y agoI guess it depends whether the iTunes music store is about selling music or just selling music to ipod owners. Obviously, Apple's priority is the latter (understandably from a business / monopoly point of view). However, if the iPod/iTunes combination didn't feel like such a lock-in (i.e, if the online music store, software and hardware could operate independently), I might easily be persuaded to drink the Apple juice.