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Originally Posted by Graham
But that's not what djgreedo said. He said that he was forced to use iTunes because the Zune marketplace was not available in his country. He said that he felt that the Zune marketplace was better than iTunes and implied that he would use it if it was available to him:
Graham
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Graham, I feel this is just beating about the bush by the op, and I don't take their words at face value: if the Zune marketplace is so good, how would he know it, since it's not available in his/her country so he can evaluate how good it is? The op is from the U.K. how successful is a company like MS in their implementation and strategy if they can't even manage to open a store in the UK by 2011 while their competitor has done so years ago? It's not like the UK is some sub saharan 1 million people african state.
So this all falls back on to my arguments. If he is forced to use itunes in the UK because MS doesn't have an equivalent, then who is forcing him? Apple? Of course not. MS? For sure, since they don't have a marketplace there yet they have all the hardware/software that would warrant one. That's why I said that implicitly MS was forcing him to use itunes. Again with the tired car analogy, if I buy a mercedes yet they don't have a service/accessories shop in my country, and I am forced to buying from the bmw one, then who is forcing me to do so? Of course non other than Mercedes.
The complete reversal of reality when it comes to apple (stemming from the pc pundits and the junk they write out of spite about apple's success) means that some people will bad mouth apple who at least have a service (which to many is a great one) that they use and to some extent find satisfactory, and praise a company that regardless of being the market leader and by far the richest one hasn't even managed to bring something equivalent to market in their country for years. This to me is mind boggling, but it's a testament to how ingrained the idiocies that "journalists" (paid ones for the most part...) become to people, even in such matters as tech so as to not only skew reality, but to turn it on its head.