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Smaller marketshare than Linux
---Millions of songs and downloaders. That is hardly no one!---
Hey, millions of people use Linux. How powerful are they in the market? Tens of millions use Apple computers. How much say do they get?

---People buy DRM'd music from iTunes at an ever increasing rate.---

Actually, no, you're wrong here. Purchasing has plateaued:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2005/11/16/1851
"Downloads in the U.S. have plateaued alarmingly. This has devastating implications for predictions that digital sales would grow exponentially."

http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/11/16/digital.music.sales.steady/
Digital music sales in the United States, the world's biggest market, have remained fairly flat over the past five months, according to new Nielsen SoundScan data

---Why can't you just admit you were wrong?---

When I'm wrong, I'll happily admit it. Here, I was right.
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Star of media industry...  Mike Cox | 10/30/06
5.5  KTLA | 10/30/06
Excellent!  X Marks The Spot | 10/30/06
Damn, you owe me a few keyboards Mike (NT)  dave95. | 10/31/06
and the True Star Of The Media Industry  Intellihence | 10/30/06
If they continue with DRM, noone will want it.  techboy_z | 10/30/06
DRM  donnellb | 10/30/06
Just like no one wants iTunes!  ShadeTree | 10/31/06
Check the numbers  tic swayback | 10/31/06
What does that have to do with what I said ....  ShadeTree | 10/31/06
Let me explain it for you  tic swayback | 10/31/06
That paltry 3% you elude to amounts to  ShadeTree | 10/31/06
Smaller marketshare than Linux  tic swayback | 10/31/06
Ah, yes. The old playing with numbers game...  BitTwiddler | 10/31/06
80% of nothing is still nothing  tic swayback | 10/31/06
It amounts to millions of downloaders and lots ...  ShadeTree | 10/31/06
Not as profitable as Apple's computers  tic swayback | 10/31/06
That isn't how I read it  NonZealot | 10/31/06
Agreed  tic swayback | 10/31/06
Once again to use your line again  ShadeTree | 10/31/06
Nasty!!  NonZealot | 10/31/06
Happily  tic swayback | 10/31/06
Nice try but no cigar.  ShadeTree | 11/01/06
Sorry you didn't enjoy my juggling act  tic swayback | 11/01/06
You were wrong and just won't admit it.  ShadeTree | 11/01/06
Ignorant and stubborn much?  tic swayback | 11/01/06
Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 ready to sing  Loverock Davidson | 10/30/06
Do You Have A Life Or A Job?  itanalyst | 10/30/06
Nice Counter Balance  jjworleyeoe | 10/30/06
ROTFLMAO !!!  Intellihence | 10/30/06
I think he is on...  Linux_Fanboy | 10/30/06
Fanboy  DangDaCommonCentz | 10/31/06
Mike Cox and his split personalities  A.Typical Zork | 10/31/06
Well said guys (NT)  Linux_Fanboy | 10/31/06
I disagree with your suspicions  Zeppo9191 | 10/31/06
I'll stick with mplayer.  Suicida| | 10/30/06
If you can get it to work  Loverock Davidson | 10/31/06
Well done MS  Richard Flude | 10/30/06
You do understand the difference between a ....  ShadeTree | 10/31/06
His point is...  tic swayback | 10/31/06
Why do you assume that Urge will be killed ...  ShadeTree | 10/31/06
It's already dying without Zune  tic swayback | 10/31/06
Smart of MS, wouldn't you say?  NonZealot | 10/31/06
Absolutely  tic swayback | 10/31/06
There is a downside though  NonZealot | 10/31/06
And sing it shall! BTW, does anybody remember  HypnoToad | 10/30/06
Another Yawner...  systemx | 10/30/06
Urge?  Suicida| | 10/30/06
I can play any file in Linux, you can't say that...  Linux_Fanboy | 10/30/06
Wow. Just wow.  A_Pickle | 10/30/06
M$ and its fanboys bring it...  Linux_Fanboy | 10/31/06
Crappy insults?  A_Pickle | 11/01/06
Your post besides being juvenile ....  ShadeTree | 10/31/06
No Podcast support? Missing the boat!  dave95. | 10/31/06
The boat has sailed and your the one that missed it.  ShadeTree | 10/31/06
Waving at you from deck......  dave95. | 10/31/06
iTunes is a music service like Urge, Napster or ...  ShadeTree | 10/31/06
So we wait on (MTV) URGE to provide it?  dave95. | 10/31/06
Urge or Napster or whomever.  ShadeTree | 10/31/06
They probably haven't figured out how to DRM it yet...  BitTwiddler | 10/31/06
Ahem.  A_Pickle | 11/01/06
EULA  fondy | 11/01/06

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