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]]> http://walki-talki.com/wordpress/2007/05/22/love-itunes-hate-ipod-manage-any-mp3-player-with-itunes/#comment-359 Payam’s Place » Blog Archive » Apple’s Ace in the Hole: Music Industry Stupidity Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:13:12 +0000 http://walki-talki.com/wordpress/?p=10#comment-359 [...] In other words, the recording industry has elected to challenge Apple’s service–which is functional and portable on Mac and Windows platforms–with a service that is functional only on the Windows platform and portable on no platform: the songs cannot be transported even on Microsoft’s Zune player. Spiralfrog.com seeks to challenge Apple by offering none of the features for which iTunes users are willing to spend hundreds of dollars (on an iPod, iPhone or other media player), and then charging the users by taxing their time in front of the computer. [...] [...] In other words, the recording industry has elected to challenge Apple’s service–which is functional and portable on Mac and Windows platforms–with a service that is functional only on the Windows platform and portable on no platform: the songs cannot be transported even on Microsoft’s Zune player. Spiralfrog.com seeks to challenge Apple by offering none of the features for which iTunes users are willing to spend hundreds of dollars (on an iPod, iPhone or other media player), and then charging the users by taxing their time in front of the computer. [...]

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