This sums up every post Oxtard has ever made.

Bob Campbell

GULP!!

no, all FREE OR Pirated Content will go primarily though Apple devices
as well... Watching / Listening to any content through non-Apple
products would be too painful.

iPods are the most open devices on the market, if you want to listen to
commercials to hear Music via SpiralFrog.com that's your ignorance at
work, not Apple's.

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Stupid oversimplification.

No, iPods can use all that free non-DRM stuff. Your oversimplification
forces a disparity where it is rare.

Childish. Try to be intelligent and adult.
If a company DRMs their stuff, then they are deciding which platform
they support. It doesn't mean Apple fails in making iPod, nor that iPod
is junk. it just means you find another source for the music.

Fine. It's great.
You don't get very much free -- sites like that don't offer many
tracks, and what they offer is thin anyway.
Go ahead, be proud and happy that you found a site that works for you.
It doesn't mean everyone else is screwed up, doing the wrong thing, and
using bad hardware.

so in translation: everything i said was correct, thanks for the
positive exposure:

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It looks like the Media companies are finally learning they no longer
have power over Apple, the below quote is quite telling of how all paid
content will fall into line "through iPods" in the future.

Apple basically owns ALL media distribution going forward, but this is
the first major company to understand it...

From Time Warner's Chief:

"You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast
brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device
with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions
about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window.
And let me remind you, the genesis of the iPhone is the iPod and iTunes
- a music device and music service that consumers love."

Wow! Now NBC has to say the same or go bankrupt...

Music boss: we were wrong to go to war with consumers -

Wednesday 14th November 2007

The boss of Warner Music has made a rare public confession that the
music industry has to take some of the blame for the rise of p2p file
sharing.

Speaking at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Macau, Edgar Bronfman told
mobile operators that they must not make the same mistake that the music
industry made.

"We used to fool ourselves,' he said. "We used to think our content was
perfect just exactly as it was. We expected our business would remain
blissfully unaffected even as the world of interactivity, constant
connection and file sharing was exploding. And of course we were wrong.
How were we wrong? By standing still or moving at a glacial pace, we
inadvertently went to war with consumers by denying them what they
wanted and could otherwise find and as a result of course, consumers
won."

Mobile operators risk the same, he said. Fewer than 10% of mobile owners
buy music on their handset, the vast majority of which is ringtones.

"The sad truth is that most of what consumers are being offered today on
the mobile platform is boring, banal and basic," he said. "People want a
more interesting form of mobile music content. They want it to be easy
to buy with a single click - yes, a single click, not a dozen. And they
want access to it, quickly and easily, wherever they are. 24/7. Any
player in the mobile value chain who thinks they can provide less than a
great experience for consumers and remain competitive is fooling
themselves."

Bronfman suggested that mobile companies have much to learn from Apple,
despite being critical of and iTunes in the past.

"For years now, Warner Music has been offering a choice to consumers at
Apple's iTunes store the option to purchase something more than just
single tracks, which constitute the mainstay of that store's sales," he
explained. "By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with
ringtones, videos and other combinations and variation we found products
that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at
premium prices. And guess what? We've sold tons of them. And with
Apple's co-operation to make discovering, accessing and purchasing these
products even more seamless and intuitive, we'll be offering many, many
more of these products going forward."

And the iPhone and iPod touch shows that approach can be made to work on
mobile platforms, he said.

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So to sum up, you have iTunes or no revenue. Everyone in the industry
knows that, but it's good to see the Media companies finally waking up
to the new reality.

iPods are WONDERFUL, there is exactly zero chance at this point in time
that anyone will unseat it for the next 30-40 years. It's set in stone.

http://snipurl.com/1trbv

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