BetaMax was cross platform..Sony wasn't the only one to make betaMax players.
but in fact, the biggest problem IMO with i-Tunes is that it's really *NOT* cross-platform. Consider cross platform to not be the Mac/PC thing, but rather the portable units which can play the i-Tunes native format. IOW, i-Tunes only plays on a proprietary portable device, namely the i-Pod. In the case of Napster, MusicMatch and a bunch of others, they all play (or plan on playing) on different portable players from different manufacturers. This offers users a multitude of choices for hardware...and drives prices down and features up. In fact, they can 'mix and match' different vendors 'purchases' on the same hardware. Just look at price/performance of Macs vs PCs. There are a much broader selection, top to bottom, in the PC market than in the Mac market - with prices (in general) being less expensive. (I'm typing this on a 2.4 GHZ E-Machines Desktop PC with DVD and CD-RW which I purchased from TigerDirect for $349.) Of course, I know you can rip directly to MP3 from i-Tunes (and Napster and others as well), then move to a portable hardware device. Some will do this, but it is an unecessary step and as i-Pod users have found out already, it's much easier going straight to the portable device than to Rip to CD --> Download from CD --> Transfer to i-Pod best, Chipp > > ummm... how can iTunes be a "BETAMAX" when it's cross platform? > > You mean it only uploads into an iPod? Or they're not using MP3 ? > That will change....Or shareware will appear. > > Anyway, currently for online music for PCs you have proprietary > softwares.... and no "VHS" analogy. > > >Richard, > > > >Well said. I enjoyed reading the article as well. In fact, it echos > >something I've been talking about for awhile. I-Tunes is the > >'BETAMAX' to the rest of the online Music 'VHS'. > >-Chipp > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution