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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
It has nothing to do with iPod.
And FTR, iTunes saved Apple's ass, not the other way around. The iTunes service wasn't even conceived by an Apple employee.
One way or another, there was a market wide open for a digital distribution service. BMG offered a monthly subscription service at the beginning of the decade (as did a few others) but no one trusted the record companies.
Rhapsody was another that didn't catch on. Don't pretend like there weren't other companies out there competing to a digital distributor. Napster even went legit and shortly went out of business.
Apple has a trustworthy name, which is huge part of why their system worked and works. Same for Amazon. I've only bought from the iTunes store once and hated the quality and the experience. Since then, I've only ordered from Amazon because I prefer 256kbs files over 128aac's.
Regardless, your "argument" is weak and invalid in 2010. If you can't afford .99 cents for a song or $8.99 for Netflix or $1 for Redbox, you've got much bigger problems in life.
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Just a question... But do you not see the problem here?