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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
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But not necessarily. Apple's AAC format didn't come to dominate digital music despite iTunes being by far the dominate music store. Once DRM dies it's all moot since it's so easy to format shift when DRM isn't involved.
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Small point of information -- the AAC format isn't "Apple's AAC format." It's an actual international standard, standards body and all. The only thing related to AAC that was Apple's was their (so-called) "Fairplay" DRM, notable mostly in that Apple extracted surprisingly non-restrictive usage rules from the big labels back when the iTunes store first opened. Allowing use on up to five computers plus as many iPods as you liked was a huge surprise at the time. Nobody thought at the time that Apple would get the big labels to allow that good a deal for the end-users.
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