Here in Australia we can't buy music from the iTunes music store at all, we can browse through it but can't make purchases. Despite this fact iPods are absolutely everywhere. It was the 'big item' last christmas and every second person seems to have one. (I bought one a year ago and I think it's great)
This seems to lend weight to the argument that the razor/blades model is irrelevant in this case as people buy the iPods even though they can't use the iTunes music store.
My girlfriend's laptop had its Windows system die in ways I'd not thought possible (though being windows it shouldn't have surprised me). It not only wouldn't boot but also would crash before allowing access to the recovery console. I couldn't even do a clean install and there were important files (all of her work since eighth grade) that couldn't be lost. As it was a laptop I couldn't take the hard drive out to run as a slave in another computer without voiding the warranty. I tried a Knoppix cd my brother had and without having used Linux beyond the basic interactions of surfing the web and doing work I was able to get the system going and burnt all of her important files to cd's. After doing that i was safe to wipe the drive. I was so impressed that I jumped into Linux headfirst and installed Debian on an old box I had. So not only did Knoppix save my girlfriend's files, it also got me onto Linux.
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Here in Australia we can't buy music from the iTunes music store at all, we can browse through it but can't make purchases. Despite this fact iPods are absolutely everywhere. It was the 'big item' last christmas and every second person seems to have one. (I bought one a year ago and I think it's great)
This seems to lend weight to the argument that the razor/blades model is irrelevant in this case as people buy the iPods even though they can't use the iTunes music store.
My girlfriend's laptop had its Windows system die in ways I'd not thought possible (though being windows it shouldn't have surprised me). It not only wouldn't boot but also would crash before allowing access to the recovery console. I couldn't even do a clean install and there were important files (all of her work since eighth grade) that couldn't be lost. As it was a laptop I couldn't take the hard drive out to run as a slave in another computer without voiding the warranty. I tried a Knoppix cd my brother had and without having used Linux beyond the basic interactions of surfing the web and doing work I was able to get the system going and burnt all of her important files to cd's. After doing that i was safe to wipe the drive. I was so impressed that I jumped into Linux headfirst and installed Debian on an old box I had. So not only did Knoppix save my girlfriend's files, it also got me onto Linux.