Comments on: Real's Glaser exhorts Apple to open iPod

The CEO says Apple Computer is creating problems for itself by using a file format that forces consumers to buy music from the iTunes site.

[robanga]

Can't you just ?

Do these other services like Rhapsody not allow you to download to MP3? If they do not are they not guilty of the same issue as he is saying Apple is? I have plenty of music that i have both purchased and ripped and purchased on my ipod

[Ipod Apple]

ripped and purchased on my ipod

http://www.analogstereo.com/xm_pioneer_inno.htm

This is far from true

There are several other sites where you can download
music for the ipod. I have an ipod and rarely use the Apple
site. How can they print these lies that will mislead people?
Besides Real Audio is way inferior to Quick time

[smkatz]

Real is both wrong and right

How they are wrong:

Opening up the iPod completely is dangerous. It will allow Microsoft to incorporate a 'free' WMA license which consumers can download, and which it can tie more closely to Windows as it has done with Internet Explorer. (there will be a version that is more secure and blocks pop-ups but it is only available for Windows XP users. Microsoft does not *have* to do it this way, but they do.)

Real is right in the sense that in order to compete with Microsoft effectively, they must make the WMA services seem out-of-place (which they are!). Real has created a jukebox that plays almost anything (strangely enough not .ogg) and is very quick to launch. They also use AAC. It is even of a higher bitrate (192kbps).

They do have songs that iTunes doesn't have because of their Rhapsody independent artist relationship.

If Real has the song I want, why wouldn't I buy from them?

A: the DRM world is so screwed up. That wouldn't stop me.. I am missing my credit card.

I believe that if Real can emphasize that their DRM is better than WMA, and that they will license to anybody, Apple will feel some heat, and consumers will benefit.

Alternatively, if the iPod supports Helix, then we have an AAC-powerhouse in the marketplace. (Walmart has hinted that they may support other formats in a private e-mail to me, as has Mercora publically.)

We can defeat this train. I gaurentee it.

--Sam

[tcrowson]

looking for an old friend

We am looking for a musician that was a friend in the 70's in San Diego:
John Sandavol.
If you are that person, please let me know what you have been doing for
the last 35 years or so.

Tim & Shyla Crowson

[hotttpinkpanties]

HOW DUMB DO YOU THINK I AM...

WHAT KIND OF RETARD IS GOING TO SPEND 300 DOLLARS ON AN IPOD WHEN YOU HAVE TO PAY 1.00 DOLLAR EACH SONG? IT WOULD ADD UP TO ABOUT 1,800 DOLLARS IF YOU GOT A MINI. I RECENTLY ORDERED AN IPOD NOT KNOWING YOU HAD TO PAY 1 DOLLAR FOR EACH SONG, THAT RIDICULOUS!! IF I CANT DOWNLOAD SONGS ON MY IPOD FROM IMESH, I WILL SEND IT BACK, PLEASE COMMENT!!

[Ipod Apple]

ORDERED AN IPOD

http://www.analogstereo.com/vacuum/miele_300_vacuum_chart.htm