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> Please provide the names of thos printed magazines.
Would the NY Times do as a quick example to prove my point?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/29/b...ia/29movie.html
December 29, 2007
Wal-Mart Pulls Plug on Movies via the Web
By MATT RICHTEL and BRAD STONE
Quote for those incapable of following lnks
"Only Apple, which has sold more than three billion songs through its
iTunes online store, seems to have had any success in selling movies.
The company is expected soon to add digital movie rentals from 20th
Century Fox to iTunes. It already lets users purchase films from
Disney and MGM, and the company is reportedly talking with other movie
studios to add their libraries to Apple's online store."
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"The problems are surmountable, but not soon, he said. "All these
things can potentially get resolved, but we're a long ways away from
the simplicity and convenience that made iTunes such a success with
music."
Wal-Mart.com's offering may have been further hindered by its digital
rights management software, known as D.R.M., meant to protect the
movie from being copied. It prevented downloaded movies from being
watched on more than one computer or on popular mobile devices like
the iPod. Wal-Mart.com's digital movies were protected by Microsoft's
anticopying software and could be played only using Microsoft's
Windows Media Player program.
In a research note published Friday, Rich Greenfield, an analyst with
Pali Capital, said the D.R.M. might have doomed Wal-Mart's movie
service. "We suspect a key reason behind Wal-Mart's decision to exit
the digital video download business was the need for D.R.M., which
prevented the content from working with iPods," he wrote. "Anywhere
you look, Apple's devices are winning, forcing content holders'
hands."
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And so forth...
In a nice way he says consumers think Microsoft's DRM (think Vista,
ZUNE, Win Media player) suck.
Apple knows what NORMAL people want and is winning with the
combination of iTunes and iPods (also iPhones which IMHO are glorified
iTouch iPods). Microsoft is delivering the experience of Vista and
Windows Mobile as their best effort and both simply injure those who
adopt the Microsoft solution. I can feel their pain as I have tried
both.
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