The real problem in all this is the utter lack of any kind of standards.
The iPod only plays .mov and .m4v movie files.
Most of these new "PlaysForSure" mp3 players are tied to Microsoft's WMV
Apple didn't want to license out their fairplay DRM so now everyone else is lining up with MS. You would have thought that Apple learned their lesson when they handed the OS victory to MS by not playing nice in that arena.
However these companies wants to implement DRM is their business. I don't care. But I would like to be able to take my home made video and convert it to ONE format that all media players can play. MPEG4...h264...Whatever!!! I don't care which one. Someone just decide and let me know!!!
Is that asking too much?
Slashdot posted an article today about Amazon's venture into the Digital Music biz, possibly intending to dethrone the iPod. Now I am NO Mac enthusiast by any means, however, Apple has built en EMPIRE of the CLEAN, BASIC, simplicity of everything they touch. Even if it does cost 5 times its PC counterpart, every product from Apple is a beauty to behold. And I am not speaking esthetically either. Everything about their products is beautiful. Performance, Feature Set, Ease of Use, and overall presentation are trademarks of Apple?s Products. The iPod is the Pinnacle of ALL of these features. It is Easy to use, clean, elegant, uncluttered and simple. Everything that Amazon is not. Amazon sells plenty, but there is NOTHING elegant about how they do it. That site is one of the most cluttered, messy, busy, ad-infested, NON User Friendly experiences I have ever embarked upon. I hardly see Amazon taking on iTunes and the almighty Pod and being even remotely successful. They are sure to make a very small splash, and be added to the other waves of non-descript players in the Digital Music seas, forever doomed to wash ashore on the island of greatness that is the iPod.

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