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Microsoft: iTunes Music Store too limited for Windows users.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Apr 2001
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...orwindowsusers
This coming from a company who's designed a licensing method which will only allow a song to be coppied to an mp3 player 3 separate times, then never again...
Ya know, you copy a song, then delete it and copy it at a later date. Do it 3 times and you can never get that song back on your player...
Besides, the iPod is hands down the best mp3 player, and is the #1 mp3 player in the world... Windows Media formats don't work on it, so can this really be considered a restriction?
I think this officially indicates that Microsoft executives are on crack...
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Great find, Bobby; I love the sniping back at MS from the Apple spokesman. It's obvious that MS is quite concerned about the iTMS. And now that it's on their radar screen Apple needs to be careful. MS could very easily take steps to screw iTunes over now that it's on Windows territory. They've done nefarious things to competitors over less, that's for sure.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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I think it's ironic Microsoft critises AAC for being a closed standard when that's precisely what WMA is!!! Just because a handful of companies USE Microsoft' WMA doesn't suddenly make it an open standard - I mean where exactly is the source code, how can I use it... oh that's right, license fees payable to Microsoft before any of that's possible. Let's now mention how restrictive Microsoft's digital rights system is, whereas with Apple's you can basically do what you want.
Furthermore isn't it phenomenal that Microsoft, THE company that has taken as many open standards as possible and then mutilated them into non-compatible formats that they then FORCE onto everyone and make it IMPOSSIBLE for any other company's product to succeed, could even think about discussing "open standards".
I mean hell, Microsoft's entire web site - including THE very page bragging about open standards - intentionally transmits an "enhanced" version to Internet Explorer but all other browsers get a deliberately crippled version. HTML, CSS, blah blah blah are all 100% open publicly documented standards Microsoft, if you can't even code your own website to work with any browser (we'll pretend you aren't being malicious and are honestly so stupid you can't program a web page that works on anything other than IE) then I don't even want to begin to think how pathetically coded Windows or any other MS product is.
Bah, they're not even worth wasting breath over...
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When companies like MS make public comments like that, it automatically shows that they've got no products that will likely compete in the works.
No one with an unreleased product that is sure to blow away the competition would bother making such a childish comment about the competition's product.
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Moderator  Join Date: Sep 2000
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I believe that there is a Lounge post already. Closing this one.
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