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Originally Posted by RSaunders
Actually, iTunes is more than the iTunes Music Store. It can convert your legacy music on CD into the format that plays on your iPod. You could do this with MP3 (even using iTunes), and you can import other MP3s into iTunes. iTunes also organizes your music into playlists and gets album data from online databases.
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True, and I completely agree about the lack of features in the ConnStore compared to iTunes.
What I was trying to get at is that Apple's approach of offering the hardware that would also handle "not their stuff" might have reduced folks concerns about the DRM in the iTunes, so that over time, folks stopped caring about it and started buying the DRMed iTunes offerings. And by extension, since the Reader will handle non-ConnStore files, the same sort of psychological process
might come into play.
I wasn't trying to suggest that Sony is becoming Apple, nor to make any comment on the ConnStore, either relative to iTunes or even the ConnStore itself.
I wasn't even trying to make a value statement about the mental process I'm trying to describe -- all I was trying to do was point out the psychological process that I think I might see, and discuss it specifically.
Guess I didn't manage to do that too clearly though.
