I know a lot of people who aren't very happy when they hear when they hear that the
iPod does not work with other music services, or even mad that
iTunes music can't be played on other devices. While most of them simply say, "aw shucks" and move on with life, I guess it
really upsets some people. People like Melanie Tucker. She is an
iTunes user who has
now filed a class-action suit against Apple stating that the company violates anti-trust laws. Makes me think of the old (yet obscure) adage, "the sun doesn't shine on the
same dog's butt every day." Last time around Microsoft had a bunch of legal matters to take care of, now it is Apple's turn to hack through the nonsense. I see the argument here, sure Apple shouldn't be so shall we say closed-minded, but we have all beat the horse to death on why. What lingers in my mind is what will this do to music in general? Is this more erosion of DRM? If Apple's method is to blame, they will change it and try to reinvent the wheel, at least a wheel that will allow more ubiquitous access to music and devices. Is really worth suing a company over? Are you mad about this issue and wish Apple would be forced to change their ways? I don't know that I care too much either way, but how do you feel. I wish it wasn't so hard to play all my music everywhere, no matter what a music download site has to do to give it to me, that is all I want. What about you?
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Subscribe to commentsashleyJan 6th 2007 4:44PM
i think this is a bad law suit! tucker really needs to get over her self and not buy i-pod or i-tunes if she just wants to complain about it!!!
JonathanJan 7th 2007 12:55AM
What about the integration that the Zune and Zune store has? What if this is just the most logical way?
01Jan 10th 2007 5:27PM
Really, what it comes down to is common sense. To charge Apple with Anti-Trust, she would need to prove several things. One, that Apple has AGGRESIVLY suppressed compatition, which is clearly not the case. On the hardware side, you have Creative (wait, didn't they sue Apple too?) Microsoft, and Archos, to name a few. On the online music side you have Napster, eMusic, whatever the hell they're calling the Zune store and others. Now, to say that out of these choices, you picked Apple and are now angry that you can't use your iTunes store purchases on a Zune? Are you also angry that you bought a PS3 and went home to realize that it won't play HD-DVD? I myslef have made some ill-advised tech purchases, but I returned the product...I didn't sue someone because I didn't do my homework.