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Apple to Launch iTunes for Windows

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the bracing-for-impact dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to this AppleInsider.com article published earlier this morning, Apple has planned an event for next Thursday to formally introduce their iTunes player and online music store for the Windows platform."

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  1. Re:Why? by pyros · · Score: 3, Funny
    Apparently you've never wanted to play your music on any non-apple product without first expanding your files to 12x their original size, and then possibly having to re-compress them to another format.

    I know I've cursed not having an apple product around to listen to my music on a stupid redbook audio CD created with iTunes. Those Apple pirates need to learn we won't tolerate that kind of vendor lock-in.

  2. Finally... by bunhed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now they just need to port the rest of OS/X to windows and we'd have something!! :)

  3. Re:Why? by Thorkytel+Ant-Head · · Score: 4, Funny

    I agree completely! I don't understand why Apple couldn't just make every standard CD player able to play compressed audio formats. Damn you Apple!

    Face it: Having to expand your files to 12x their original size is a result of standard CD players not being able to read compressed audio, not a result of anything that Apple has done. If you download a pirated MP3 file off of Kazaa, you're still going to need to burn it to CD to play it on a standard CD player. Your criticisms apply that it's Apple's fault, where it's not.