Thurrott is back to his unfortunate blog-baiting ways. (Which I guess work, right?). This, of course, in no way proves lock-in accusations about Apple. They’ve shown an eagerness to sell unlocked, DRM-free music. The recording industry, however, won’t allow it, preferring to give DRM-free music exclusively to iTunes’ competitors in an effort to offset Apple’s growing power base. Which is fine, and their right, and perhaps even a smart thing to do if you don’t care about your consumers (which, historically, they don’t).
So rather than play pundit and distort data, how about putting the lock-in accusations where they really belong, bokay Paul?
Amazon Gains Share of Shrinking Paid Music Market - SuperSite Blog
This proves the lock-in accusations about Apple are correct, of course, and that Apples strategy is both brilliant and effective. Were at the point where complaining because a song will only work on an iPod is just about as ludicrous as complaining that a software application is limited because it runs “only” on Windows as Apple promoters like David Pogue often do. The problem I have with iTunes content, however, has little to do with lock-in, though its a concern. Im more worried about quality most iTunes tracks are in a lowly 128 Kbps format. Compatibility/portability is secondary to that, and would be less of an issue if more music there was at least unprotected and could be transcoded to a better format with no loss in quality. Which is impossible with 128 Kbps tracks, period.
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