[Spktyr]

No, because the iPod installed base is far too large and people have too much invested in iTMS purchases.

Also, there's going to be a lot of lawsuits by current MP3 makers over this - Samsung, Sony, Sandisk, et al *cannot* be happy about this.

[aft_lizard]

I dont buy the there installed base is too large argument. Sony came in and dominated an already saturated videogame market in 1995 with the PS1. Plus I heard MS is buying rights to music to the sum of billions of dollars so that purchasers can put music for free on there players, or at a heavy discount. And we both know that MS is willing to lose billions to create a large userbase.

[theFIRMbss]

>No, because the iPod installed base is far too large and people have too much invested in iTMS purchases

Ha, ha-ha-ha, ha!
Ah, ha-ha! Ha-ha-ha! Ha!
HA-HA, ha-ha-ha . . .

[Jameison]

"No, because the iPod installed base is far too large and people have too much invested in iTMS purchases."


Nintendo had a huge installed base too, before the XBOX took the Gamecube out in Market share.
And before that so did Wordperfect was the dominant word processor, before Microsoft word took em out.
Same thing with Lotus 123 b4 Microsoft Excel took 'em out.
And the iPod itself took out other portable music players from Creative and others, that came before the iPod.

You don't have much of a point.