Digital downloads is not going to take off while it continues to be a mess of proprietary formats, proprietary DRM, and proprietary devices all tied to proprietary services. At most it will succeed for rentals where nobody cares about this stuff. Anyone who actually builds a purchased collection tied to Amazon, Apple, Microsoft or whoever's service is a moron.
If they really are building out an industry platform with proper key management then that's a massive leap forward. The devil is in the details of course. I wonder if they'd be better off junking DRM entirely and using watermarking to depress content sharing.
The Galaxy Tab 10.1, much like its Limited Edition sibling that we reviewed last month, is ever-so-slightly thinner than the iPad 2, a slate that most sane individuals (and competitors, for that matter) would confess is the market leader today.
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Digital downloads is not going to take off while it continues to be a mess of proprietary formats, proprietary DRM, and proprietary devices all tied to proprietary services. At most it will succeed for rentals where nobody cares about this stuff. Anyone who actually builds a purchased collection tied to Amazon, Apple, Microsoft or whoever's service is a moron.
If they really are building out an industry platform with proper key management then that's a massive leap forward. The devil is in the details of course. I wonder if they'd be better off junking DRM entirely and using watermarking to depress content sharing.