Microsoft surpasses 2 million Zunes sold. Apple sells 2.65 million iPods a month
How is it that the two top selling MP3 players are the two most DRM-encumbered? I think, though, that a survey would be more relevant. Something simple, like "What Do you use to listen to music on the road?" It would answer my nagging doubts: How many of those iPods go to repeat buyers? How many people use something that's not an MP3 player to play MP3's?
I fall into the latter category, the wifest into the former. I use my blackberry for music playing (with a decent pair of headphones and a decent music player, that scrobbles). I spent a long time worrying about what type of MP3 player to buy, so that DRM wouldn't be an issue. Then Amazon MP3 launched, and it all became moot. There's now (almost) no MP3 I can't find on Amazon, DownloadPunk, or Bleep. My music player is a MSD, so there's no worry about adding files from multiple machines. I don't have to use special software (yes, iTunes is special in a short bus kinda way) to load music either. Any fears of running out of battery are assuaged by the fact that i can charge it off any usb port.
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This page looks funky in Safari - thought you’d like to know..
Agree about the MSD - later Creatives are PITA for that but at least xjnb exists and works very well here.
thanks for the heads up. i’m in the process of starting from scratch with the design, i guess i’ll have to get on that.
When you live in Canada you have no choices since the best online mp3 services are US. So, we get to pick iTunes or the Windows DRM alternative. Summing up, have an apple you have to go with iTunes. In a global world it doesn’t seem fair….
iPod’s are crap any way you slice it. There’s no way of transporting music/files with them, as they’re not MSD’s.
The safari issues should be resolved. apparently the nested HTML comments caused safari to throw a wobbly.