...over a product that is proprietary (locked up), and controlled by herr fuhrer Steve Jobs. And are stuck with iTunes as an only option? And why do they celebrate their bondage? Is it "Stockholm Syndrome"?
2007-01-23 06:54:07 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Consumer Electronics ➔ Music & Music Players
First of all, iPod isn't successful because of Apple fanatics. It's successful because the version sold at general retail is formatted to work with Windows as the default OS (the Mac-formatted version is only sold through Apple.com and Apple stores because there's not enough market for it to sell thorugh general retail stores like Best Buy and Circuit City). Without that change, iPod would be one of the least popular players catering to a tiny little 4% of the computer market.
As for the other issue, iTunes was designed to work effortlessly with iPods, so there's no reason why Apple would ever need to release an alternate program. There are alternate interfaces, but they're all user-designed, and none of them offer enough to be worth using over iTunes.
The point is, Macs are underpowered, overpriced, and less versatile than PCs, and their market share continues to reflect that. iPods are at least as powerful and much easier to operate than their nearest equivalents, and their market share (90% with the hard-drive versions and 70% overall) also continues to reflect that. The real question, then, is why are you so obsessed with being anti-Apple that you'll avoid anything they have to offer regardless of the fact that the Windows-using market has clearly deemed an Apple device to be the superior product?
2007-01-23 09:55:38 · answer #1 · answered by the_amazing_purple_dave 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋