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Songbird the Open Source iTunes?
An anonymous reader writes "Cnet has an interesting story about a company about to release an open source alternative to iTunes. Apparently, the software can be used with a multitude of music services." From the article: "Apple's iTunes is 'like Internet Explorer, if Internet Explorer could only browse Microsoft.com,' Lord said. 'We love Apple, and appreciate and thank them for setting the bar in terms of user experience. But it's inevitable that the market architecture changes as it matures.'"
Well, for my two cents...
95 percent of the world uses mostly sites that are user friendly aka. AOL, MSN, Yahoo and Google. The *nix/open source world is for those who want to express their individualism, which is great, it's just a vast majority of the world seeks the ease of use. Unless it's extremely easy to learn, understand and use...forget about it. Sites like iTunes and those that provide these things will win...those that don't will evaporate. I use only those sites that are easy to understand and use. When I find one I e-mail it to all my friends. This is what goes on in the real world.
It seems there will always be those who will pose something new but in the end will always be difficult for 99 percent of normal people to use. Good for them, go use it, love it and be one with it...only don't go trying to make it sound as if it's something that's better than AOL, MSN, Yahoo or Google, because in the end most of the world won't find it that way. Come to grips with the world and its inhabitants...we're simple. We seek the easiest way of doing things...those that do will win our hearts, those that don't will always be on the sidelines...second string players so to speak. Rail against us if you must, in the end it will do not good. Those that provide the easiest way of doing something on the Internet will always win. That seems to be something that others don't understand and never will, always whining about...as if it means something...when in the end...it really doesn't
We're simple folk...complex in some sense but simple in most. So go do those things that excite you, make you feel as if you're finding something new when, in the end, has been thought about, beta'd and found useless by those mega-websites. AOL, MSN, Yahoo and Google who spend millions on these things. To think you can do better is what dreams are made of. Your only hope is that you will come up with something that they will want to buy...globalization...globalization...Chinanizatio n...Chinanization.