Technology? Yeah, they're all about the same, download, burn, transfer. It's just a matter of who's looser with their terms, who cares.
Platform? who cares, there are options for most.
BUT! the most important thing nobody has mentioned is where is the selection? 500,000 song titles is jack squat. I do know one thing, where are the Beatles? the Rolling Stones? Eric Clapton? These are the high roller artists that people (and myself) want and if they can't find them on the legal pay services, well you know what's left......
This is not the worst of all possible reactions to failure. At one point though, just as the alcoholic or tv soap opera addicts must, they must admit to themselves that it is the real world that matters the most. He cannot cure his failure or ability to deal with failure by playing a game (drinking, shopping etc...). Everyone must deal with the Real World until they are at the comfort level they percieve that will be best for them. For some type A personalities this may be an ultimate quest for wealth, while for others it may just be enought to put food on the table, roof over their head and 13 dollars a month for AO. This cannot be accomplished sticking his head in the sand....computer.
I find some of the implications for that boy very disturbing. It reads as though he has had his childhood robbed from his at 9. As for his mother agreeing to that because of the stock options, sickning.
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Technology? Yeah, they're all about the same, download, burn, transfer. It's just a matter of who's looser with their terms, who cares.
Platform? who cares, there are options for most.
BUT! the most important thing nobody has mentioned is where is the selection? 500,000 song titles is jack squat. I do know one thing, where are the Beatles? the Rolling Stones? Eric Clapton? These are the high roller artists that people (and myself) want and if they can't find them on the legal pay services, well you know what's left......
This is not the worst of all possible reactions to failure. At one point though, just as the alcoholic or tv soap opera addicts must, they must admit to themselves that it is the real world that matters the most. He cannot cure his failure or ability to deal with failure by playing a game (drinking, shopping etc...). Everyone must deal with the Real World until they are at the comfort level they percieve that will be best for them. For some type A personalities this may be an ultimate quest for wealth, while for others it may just be enought to put food on the table, roof over their head and 13 dollars a month for AO. This cannot be accomplished sticking his head in the sand....computer.
I find some of the implications for that boy very disturbing. It reads as though he has had his childhood robbed from his at 9. As for his mother agreeing to that because of the stock options, sickning.