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New research blasts Net music stores for confusing navigation and locking users into proprietary formats.
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FNAC is run by Denis Olivennes, who until 2002 was Director General of Canal +, the French television and media company.
Shelley Taylor & Associates list Canal + amongst their clients, and funnily enough, Microsoft too. FNACmusic.com is built on Windows Media Technology.
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Take that for what it's worth.
burning them as an Audio CD and re-encoding in MP3. It might
be an extra step, but at least you are not stealing music off a
P2P.
Secondly you forget that the iTunes music store's primary goal is
to sell iPods. Apple maybe makes a cent a song. Maybe just
brakes even.
Unless the RIAA comes up with a more fair music distribution,
you can't fault Apple for locking you to the iPod. They can't
make much money on the songs so they provide the best music
player available as an incentive to download, not the other way
around.
And that's the point of the article.
And, the price is really good.
American company over a French provider?
Can't you guys find something better to report?
might question the validity of the report. I've seen better web
sites designed by 5 years olds. Talk about about blowing the
customer experience!
http://www.infofarm.com/
I remember back in the days the main selling point of technology was freedom/flexibility, cheaper, and making life easier. The opposite has taken place thanks to old outdated copyright laws.... and greed. And with a friendly government, whose going to stop them???
Luckily most music these days produced by the mainstream music companies is cookie-cutter garbage, otherwise I would really have to worry. After a week or two you don't want to hear it anymore
* Dell
* Microsoft
* Canal +
Is it any wonder they would trash iTunes with an unbiased client list like that?
Geez. How about some objective research please.
proprietary format...say it with me everyone...Apple's AAC has
their own (Apple's) DRM, but AAC is not proprietary to Apple...
WMA is a Microsoft proprietary format, it is not a 'standard' in
the way MP3 or any other is...
these people are just proping up their store as 'the best', who
cares, why is this an article, why is CNET using it as an 'in your
face' to iTunes?
you can take any music bought at any internet music store and
play it on any portable music player...you may have to convert
file types (WMA to MP3, AAC to MP3), but that is not anymore
inconvenient than ripping a CD.
CNET...stop
spreading
misinformation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!