This article makes so much sense because so many people are finding options other than ipods. There are many choices when it comes to looking for a music player, and when Apple puts a restriction on the format that it sells it becomes a problem. For people who want to use the music that they buy from Apple for other reasons, i.e. making a ringtone it its really hard. Before they start to format the ringtone they have to convert the AAC file to an MP3. Why would someone want to do this when they could just buy the MP3 file? Or even just download it?
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This article makes so much sense because so many people are finding options other than ipods. There are many choices when it comes to looking for a music player, and when Apple puts a restriction on the format that it sells it becomes a problem. For people who want to use the music that they buy from Apple for other reasons, i.e. making a ringtone it its really hard. Before they start to format the ringtone they have to convert the AAC file to an MP3. Why would someone want to do this when they could just buy the MP3 file? Or even just download it?