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Apple's Move May Make AAC Music Industry Standard
stivi writes "BusinessWeek has up an article about a war: a standards war in the online music business. Apple's recent deal with EMI to sell DRM-free songs from the publisher's catalog on iTunes may clinch the iPod's AAC format as the industry standard. The article talks about possible reasons why AAC might marginalize WMA, as well as deals with some of the implications of drm-free aac-standardized industry. 'Online music stores, like Napster, Yahoo Music, URGE, and all the others that sell WMA songs will be forced to consider jumping into the DRM-free AAC camp, and thus become iPod compatible, and in so doing become competitors of iTunes. Apple will be fine with this, because in its range of priorities, anything that sells more iPods can only be a good thing. With time, practically all music stores will be selling iPod-compatible songs. This will be considered a Richter 10 event at Microsoft.'"
Spock, arm the lawyers, set chairs to stun.
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Apple's Move May Make AAC Music Industry Standard
So selling DRM-free AAC files will dethrone DRM-free MP3 files as the industry standard?
How, exactly?
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
>>the #1 DAP on the market?
Whats a DAP? Is it like an iPod?
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
Unless, of course, Microsoft also offers DRM free WMA files in its Zune Marketplace.
But of course, that could never happen, right?