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Originally Posted by taosaur
You're kidding around, but the absurdity of making that statement about a music player demonstrates how misguided it is to consider media "ecosystems" as a selling point. I'm not about to purchase a device or install a piece of software that makes it too great a burden to shop around, be it for books, music, software or video. I don't balk at purchasing files on one machine and transferring them to another, but if it's going to take more steps than that to use files from a retailer of my choice on your machine, I'm simply not buying your machine.
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You make a good point, but thats not what I was talking about at all. I was riffing on the secondary market of cases, athletic gear that works with such gear, other software, etc...
I don't buy music from Amazon or Apple unless it is, as it is in most cases, DRM free.