Brian and Zennalathas... you are missing my point.
I'm fully aware you can put other stuff on iPods. Apple sells a lot of that too. But lets say you are going to put movies on that thing... High School Musical, for example. $10 bucks, just over a gig. To fill your hard drive going this route, you are looking at $1600.
If anything you guys MADE my point. I wasn't arguing that its redic that iPods can hold so much, i like that. I was arguing that the record companies & iTunes model of a buck a song (or $10 per movie) is useless. Apple knows this. They know they haven't sold enough songs to fill all of those iPods. And they know they aren't selling high quality enough songs to fill them up more quickly than the advertised numbers.
They know full well we are all pirating the crap out of the very record companies they work with. They don't care cause they don't make a thing on those songs or movies. They make money on iPods though... So they have no real incentive to break the iTunes and iPod system for one that makes more sense, like a subscription model.
The people on this blog know you can throw your homework, some movies, some great high quality lossless music and more on there. Most of us don't want to, because we have thumbdrives on our keychains and we understand that the highest quality music in the world isn't gonna sound great coming out of a quarter inch ipod jack going in to earbuds.
And the rest of the world? They know the ipod is the best player, and they know how to fire up LimeWire to fill it up.
Like i said, you both basically made my point while trying to argue it. Nobody in their right mind would put 40k in to their music. So why is music still a buck a track when we can carry that much in our pockets?
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Brian and Zennalathas... you are missing my point.
I'm fully aware you can put other stuff on iPods. Apple sells a lot of that too. But lets say you are going to put movies on that thing... High School Musical, for example. $10 bucks, just over a gig. To fill your hard drive going this route, you are looking at $1600.
If anything you guys MADE my point. I wasn't arguing that its redic that iPods can hold so much, i like that. I was arguing that the record companies & iTunes model of a buck a song (or $10 per movie) is useless. Apple knows this. They know they haven't sold enough songs to fill all of those iPods. And they know they aren't selling high quality enough songs to fill them up more quickly than the advertised numbers.
They know full well we are all pirating the crap out of the very record companies they work with. They don't care cause they don't make a thing on those songs or movies. They make money on iPods though... So they have no real incentive to break the iTunes and iPod system for one that makes more sense, like a subscription model.
The people on this blog know you can throw your homework, some movies, some great high quality lossless music and more on there. Most of us don't want to, because we have thumbdrives on our keychains and we understand that the highest quality music in the world isn't gonna sound great coming out of a quarter inch ipod jack going in to earbuds.
And the rest of the world? They know the ipod is the best player, and they know how to fire up LimeWire to fill it up.
Like i said, you both basically made my point while trying to argue it. Nobody in their right mind would put 40k in to their music. So why is music still a buck a track when we can carry that much in our pockets?