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iPod Microsoft's latest ad: iTunes and the iPod are crazy expensive

I buy very little from the iTunes store, but at least what I buy is mine. Subscription services have never made any sense to me. Why would I pay for music I don't actually own? :confused:

Now when/if the day comes when we can get music in CD quality from the iTunes Store I'll be more than happy to buy my music online. Till then I'll just get the occasional single.
 
How cute of them to assume that everyone buys their music.

If I was Microsoft, I'd focus more on critiquing the iPod's audio output quality. I know it does most people, but I find it terrible, even when compared to the zune. I have both devices and zune definitely wins on sound quality. My opinion only.
 
come on!
if I hate something is subscriptions. like WOW, LOTRO and now this zune thing. with subscriptions, they keep you anchored to them. you want your music? keep paying. you fill your ipod with 30,000 dollars, but in order to hear your music with zune, you need to pay, and pay, and pay.
it's the microsoft market: you want cooler things? pay
like wit the 360: paying to play online. come on!
 
I think he meant that he doesn't like having to pay indefinitely to use a service. With iTunes it's a one time deal, but with Zune subscription you have to keep paying and download 15 new songs a month, or you start losing money, and if you stop paying, you loose all the songs you had.

Most people will have the music they love on CDs already, and seriously, I doubt that there are 15 worth while new songs coming out every month to make people want to download. Plus, most people I know only download off iTunes when they receive a gift card.
 
In the UK, due to our ancient and outdated laws, it is technically illegal to rip CDs to your computer, or something like an iPod. So in this context they're right, the only way you can fill up your iPod *legally* is to download everything from iTunes or Amazon.
 
RetepNamenots said:
In the UK, due to our ancient and outdated laws, it is technically illegal to rip CDs to your computer, or something like an iPod. So in this context they're right, the only way you can fill up your iPod *legally* is to download everything from iTunes or Amazon.
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You are of course, 'techincally' correct (although I believe a law change on this is has been under consideration for a while). If we are being 'technical' and ignoring what actually happens in real life though, everyone who buys an iPod could fill it up purely with content like free promotional MP3s, podcasts and self-created music from Garageband/logic etc, that cost absolutely nothing at all.

The *only* context in which Microsoft are really correct though, is in their made-up world where the only content you use on your iPod are in the form of purchased tracks downloaded from the iTunes Store and you go out of your way to purposefully fill the iPod's capacity, neither of which is in any way a necessity.

Their argument is a completely flawed one that ignores the reality of the situation. All they have to do is describe the benefits of an all-you-can-eat service (which would be fine), but they've just made themselves look stupid and they didn't have to. They would be better actually praising the iPod then saying 'here's something like the iPod but better because you can download lots of music legitimately for much less money' rather than 'An iPod costs you $30,000!!!' because the former sounds enticing, whereas the latter just sounds crazy, even if it can be 'technically' true in extremely unlikely circumstances.
 
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