[blybug]

An intelligent (Windows) friend of mine who has a 2nd Gen 20GB iPod tells me today he was going to get one of the new 40GB models. Except that he heard from someone that the new models only play authorized songs and he wouldn't be able to play his ripped or downloaded MP3s, and he should stick with the old model.

I told him this was absolutley FALSE, and he should go ahead and get the new model, it will play all his old tunes as well as anything he may rip or download in the future, or better yet choose to buy at the iTMSW (which he did not know about). Is it possible that Apple's wonderful music solution is going to suffer the same sort of FUD and misinformation that the entire Mac platform has suffered for 20 years? That already people are misunderstanding

"the iPod is the only player that can play authorized AACs"

as the falsehood

"the iPod can only play authorized AACs?"



I hope that Apple gets the message out there soon before the common folk start to believe once again that Apple products are "incompatible" with their files and they all run off the Napster or WMF cliff. Especially since the DRM with regards to iPods in particular are anything but limiting!! I wouldn't be a bit surprised if this kind of information is making its way around PC message boards and leaking out into the world (perhaps fueled by those rather oblique comments by that Microsoft executive).

I'll be selling my 15GB on eBay this week after I buy a 40Gigger at the Night of the Panther tomorrow!!

[blackbird_1.0]

email this example to apple or tell them through feedback, they won't know until YOU tell them

[icruise]

I don't know, that seems like a pretty dumb mistake to make. But of course, until recently, there were people who thought Macs still couldn't display color...