Hm. I'm a Norwegian and have followed this in the news regularly. It's not a matter of anti-Apple or anti-anyone. The reasoning is that you buy the music, not the format! With the current model the consumers are forced to use iPods only.
Now, how they can get around the DRM and still keep it un-shareable is another matter. Maybe its time for Apple to release the format to other players?
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Hm. I'm a Norwegian and have followed this in the news regularly. It's not a matter of anti-Apple or anti-anyone. The reasoning is that you buy the music, not the format! With the current model the consumers are forced to use iPods only.
Now, how they can get around the DRM and still keep it un-shareable is another matter. Maybe its time for Apple to release the format to other players?