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Apple Holding Back the Music Business?
conq writes "With average weekly download as of Nov. 27 sales down 0.44% vs. the third quart, BusinessWeek speculates that Apple might in fact be holding back the music industry." From the article: "As has been true since the start, iPod owners mostly fill up their players from their own CD collections or swipe tunes from file-sharing sites. Now legal downloads may be losing their luster. According to Nielsen SoundScan, average weekly download sales as of Nov. 27 fell 0.44% vs. the third quarter. Says independent media analyst Richard Greenfield: 'We're not seeing the kind of dramatic growth we should given the surge in sales of iPods and other MP3 players.'"
fortunatly, most people don't listen to music in a completly silent room that is sound proof.
Most people have background noice the drones out the ends. Of course, I am sure your hearing is 30% above normel, and therefore can hear the difference.
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Heh. Okay, so Apple is good because they support the one format that no business in the industry wants to use, but you can transcode an already lossy version of a song into it. I'm going to try a little experiment here:
"Derp de derp."
"He's implying that without Apple, the music industry would have some great online business going and be selling tons more music."
Wrong. He's implying that Apple has created a device that Apple can sell music for. (I'm truely amazed at how people around here have a short memory when it comes to Apple's shenanigans). Apple owns the market, and they're the ones that make all the money on it. Competitors can't even ween in on it. Boo hoo? Well, sure. We love Apple, the iPod, and iTunes. Who cares if other businesses aren't permitted to offer alternative services? No no, we don't want choice around here. It's Apple! They're allowed to make it for us!!
"Derp de derp."
" With MP3 formated files, I can move from any one player to any other player."
Nobody will sell those MP3 files on-line. So you have to jump through extra hoops to get to them. I'm sorry, but I'm not accepting MP3 as a non-lock-in example.
"Buying an iPod does not force me to buy from iTMS."
Okay, maybe I'm being ignorant here. What other services can you buy iPod compatible music for? I'm dead serious, I'll back down if you can name one or two. Part of my reaction here is that I CAN'T use my existing music service with an iPod, but with other players I can. You'd be doing me a huge favor if you could suggest an alternative music service with a subscription model that I could use an iPod with.
"Derp de derp."
I think troll tuesday is supposed to be a little more subtle than that, you motherfucker.
English is easier said than done.
Only on Slashdot would it be the end-user's fault that Apple's proprietary formats are inconvienent.
"Derp de derp."