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Originally Posted by harryE123
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.
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djgreedo is from Australia not the UK. It's not that he can't access and review the Zune marketplace, it's that it doesn't provide a payment gateway that he can use to buy tracks in Australia.
While you can argue that MS is 'forcing' him to use iTunes in this respect, it's not the quality of the software that is in question, which is the point that was under discussion.
By the same argument you could say that Amazon, Napster, Spotify and countless others were 'forcing' him to use iTunes as they don't have a gateway in Australia.
Graham