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Actually I think you can also attribute it to (a) the iPod becoming massively popular and becoming synonmous with "portable music player", (b) Only Apple DRM an
by rmc 13y ago
Actually I think you can also attribute it to (a) the iPod becoming massively popular and becoming synonmous with "portable music player", (b) Only Apple DRM and non-DRM-able MP3s supported on the iPod.
The iPod won the music player market, so if you tried to sell music with DRM you need to either (i) play by Apple's rules or (ii) have mundane tech users being confused when they can't play the music they bought on the what at become THE standard music player.
In 2006, during discusion of the Broadcast Flag DRM, an 82 year old senator was given an iPod and started to realise that lots of DRM wouldn't work with it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2006/01/history-and-senator-stevens-ipod https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2006/01/history-and-senator-st...
- pajop 13y agoI agree with this. When I was buying physical music CDs and play it on my laptop - different CDs had different DRM formats. After a while, I had 6-7 different DRM-enabled players. I stopped playing physical CDs on my laptop after that.
- RexRollman 13y agoTrue, but the Apple music beast was really created by the music industry who insisted on them using DRM in the first place.
- mseebach 13y agoYes, Apple did a bait-and-switch on the music industry. First they won by playing by the rules, then they used their dominance to change the rules.