If they were to release it for Mac only then that would be very stupid as
Mac has such a small percentage of the computer market.That dosen't make
very good business sense.





Bill Davis wrote in message
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What Jobs did was realize that there was a better way to get music
into
peoples computers, and bet that people would be more inclined to do it
LEGALLY, if there was a simple and affordable way that didn't make
them
feel like thieves.

Bull ****.

You do not need a specific computer platform or specific software to
browse items and make purchases from E-Bay, or Amazon, or pretty much
any on-line retailer.

Music is just another commodity - like books. If Steve Jobs wants to
sell music, track by track, then fine. The music companies should
have been doing that for at least the past 5 years.

Yeah, well, then clearly their people are either more distracted, less
wise, or simply stupider than Mr. Jobs. Because he's the only one so far
who's looked at the horizon and figured there was a another way to
proceed.


But don't tell me it was both smart AND necessary to make browsing the
selections and making actual purchases to be Mac-dependent. And it's
NOT a great idea if I need to have specific devices to listen to the
music (like the pod-thing).

Quite simply, this is NOT about the music. It's about Mac.

Well DUH...

Of COURSE it's about the Mac. For heaven's sake the guy who put the iTunes
system together is the HEAD of the company that makes Macs.

What POSSIBLE reason could he have for saying, "Hey, I think I'll develop
a new product. Even tho I'm surrounded by Mac engineers. Even tho I have
access (no wait, OWNERSHIP) of everything from the OS to the source code
for the ROM, I think I'll develop it as a PC product! Yeah, THAT's the
ticket! I'll devote TWICE the development time to the product and Zillions
of hours more hours of time getting this stuff to work on
a hundred MP3 player variants and with who knows how many system
configurations on desktop boxes - rather than just doing the first
implementation on the stuff I already know and control.

Let me guess. You haven't spent much time in business school, right?

No sin there. But man, if you wait for the world to work the way YOU think
it should, you'll be waiting a LONG time.

iTunes is what it is.

It works the way it works.

It'll eventually be available for PC users because that's what the OWNER
of the program decided.

Welcome to reality.

--
Bill Davis
NewVideo


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