Restrictions and Price Remain iTunes Turnoffs

A more reasoned story which dissects beyond the iTunes hysteria…the story talks about prices of a full downloadable album being more than CD album prices (something which WSJ wrote about earlier this month), as well an iTunes’ incompatibility with other MP3 players besides iPod.

The story also takes Apple to task on its secrecy: It may very well have other devices up its sleeve, but the company, as usual, refuses to talk about them. That’s the problem right there — Apple wants customers to advance into this digital-music future without a map. In so doing, it’s showing itself at its least attractive: resolutely proprietary and secretive to a fault.

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