Why do people think iTunes is cooler than WMP? I think this graphic says it all -- I'm not sure if it's the military style "BETA 2" or the super awesome "Turn it up" slogan. I feel like "Just say NO!" is hidden in there somewhere.

Good product, laughable marketing.

This is beginning to feel like the IM interoperability leap-frog from 7-8 years ago.

Quoted: By our approximation that means it took Igor (no, not Iger) about 8 hours and 1 minute to crack the latest major iTunes update.

Quoted: France is pushing through a law that would force Apple Computer to open its iTunes online music store and enable consumers to download songs onto ...

This is a wonderful trend -- if I can get OTA HD for broadcast channels at my house, this might finally kill my cable subscription.

I agree with the assessment (I would never pay $1 for the DRM crap Apple is selling on iTunes), but I'm still quite surprised by the fall-off.

Quoted: Now legal downloads may be losing their luster. According to Nielsen SoundScan, average weekly download sales as of Nov. 27 fell 0.44% vs. the third quarter. Says independent media analyst Richard Greenfield: "We're not seeing the kind of dramatic growth we should given the surge in sales of iPods and other MP3 players." ... Which brings us to a grand irony: Apple, which launched the digital music revolution, may now be holding it back.

This is a good illustration of why Jobs' power in the digital music business is making the record labels angry.

Quoted: Apple Computer Inc. chief executive Steve Jobs vowed Tuesday to resist music companies' "greedy" demands for increases in the prices of music downloads and warned that any such steps would encourage piracy.

This is a nice high level guide explaining the restrictions of purchasing music online.

Quoted: Many digital music services employ digital rights management (DRM) — also known as "copy protection" — that prevents you from doing things like using the portable player of your choice or creating remixes. Forget about breaking the DRM to make traditional uses like CD burning and so forth. Breaking the DRM or distributing the tools to break DRM may expose you to liability under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) even if you're not making any illegal uses.