In an attempt to solidify his place in the whacked out hall of fame, Buy.com's Scott Blum recently stated that "The iPod is the best little product I've ever seen, but it's like building the best car in the world, yet it doesn't use everyone's gas."
Excuse me? You mean to say that the rest of the world is listening to .wma files and NOT mp3s? Man, I thought everyone had .mp3s on their computers, but I guess it's just us Mac people in our arrogance who listen to those dusty antiquated files. Oh, and since the iPod has a 50% market share (PC and MAC) in portable music players and doesn't even recognize a .wma file, then at least half the world is crazy and using the wrong kind of gas?
This rant has been brought to you by the introduction of, ahem, the BuyMusic.com online music rip-off, er, I mean, store. None of the songs are transferrable to an iPod, PC or Mac. You can only play a downloaded song on the computer that downloads it. You can only burn a song to CD three times, if at all. Each song has different restrictions i.e. you can only listen to some of the purchased tunes every other Thursday while standing on your head, whistling Dixie out your, well, you know.
All I can say is please let me know if you think this is a good deal because I haven't talked to anyone who thinks this is worth it.
Posted by todd at July 23, 2003 11:11 AM
Are you kidding? I’m still waiting for a personal player that can load 8-bit .wav and .mdi files!
Posted by: timsamoff on July 23, 2003 11:35 AMI use my ipod as an alarm clock only, so i don’t care about wav and mp3-4 and all that technical stuff.
seriously though, as a commercial photographer I wish I could give an agency a CD that could only be read 3 times, meaning they couldn’t archive my images and then “reuse them accidently” and hope I don’t find out.
buy.com sound like idiots because most people burn cds and stuff to allow them to listen while jogging and driving and stuff.
I’ve had people burn cds for me, and because I liked some of the songs I have gone out and purchesed the original (and other stuff by the artist). If they music is good people will pay for a good copy. If they music is like most of the crap littering our sound alike radio stations in Kansas City, MO, then it’s no wonder people burn cds for friends - it’s all disposable. It’s not like you’d actually want to listen to it more than a few times, right…
I think there is a coherent thought in there somewhere. Good luck finding it.
—Chris
p.s. Just got back from Rome, Italy. Talk about high priced CD’s.. Many of them were 21.50 Euros…
Will prices on CDs ever reach decent low?
Posted by: Chris Bjuland on July 26, 2003 06:05 AM