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To: William F. Wager, Jr. who wrote (46594)	8/22/2005 10:50:35 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213172

>>There are over 500 accessories sold for the iPod, such as customized car mounts and leather cases, and just a few for other players. << WFW - That does make a lot of difference. I just got a new car stereo system that includes an iPod interface similar to what BMW and other car makers offer. My iPod hooks up to a cable in the glove box, and I control it through the head unit. I love it. - Allen

To: William F. Wager, Jr. who wrote (46594)	8/22/2005 10:52:16 AM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213172

They're not inferior players - they're less popular players. As Mac advocates have (correctly) argued for decades, market share dominance does not mean product superiority.

To: William F. Wager, Jr. who wrote (46594)	8/22/2005 11:51:09 AM
From: slacker711	Respond to of 213172

Another huge downside of the rental services is that the songs they rent — and even the ones they sell outright for the extra 79 cents — cannot be played on the world's best and most popular portable player: Apple's iPod. That's because the rental-service songs are encoded in a format owned by Microsoft, Apple's rival, and Microsoft software is required to play them on a portable player. Apple won't build the necessary Microsoft compatibility into the iPod. None of that changes the fact that the example that Mossberg used was terrible. There are all kinds of reasons that a person might not use a subscription service, but if you download 250 or more songs a year, the cost shouldnt be one of them. Also, my understanding is that if you burn a audio CD with your downloaded "Microsoft" music and then rerip it onto your computer in MP3 format that it will strip out the DRM. You can then play it on your iPod. Slacker