news.yahoo.com— Amazon's MP3 store - which sells only songs without copy protection - has quietly become No. 2 in digital sales since opening nearly six months ago.
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Microsoft being Microsoft (big pockets, market bullying), they subsidize WMA/WMV licensing for gadgets and appliances in order to acquire marketshare gain for their platform of digital media solutions (because it eventually would translate into more license sales and adoption of other Microsoft-owned technologies, such as Microsoft Windows, Windows Media Player, etc). AAC being a child of many parents, the greediest of them Fraunhofer and Dolby, have no such agenda to push, and live exclusive off licensing and royalties fees. So they don't subsidize anything. Since there's no universal consumer demand for AAC (not nearly as much as MP3), you always see more Car Players, Portable Gadgets, DVD Players playing WMA than you see playing AAC. It's just cheaper for manufacturers.
^^^ comment auto blocked i'm sure it's retarded ^^^ macParrot is the worst, most ignorant fanboy out there, with no common sense,its not even worth wasting my time reading what the idiot says. Check out his wicket disgusting site, its as bland and stupid as he is.
Loan doesn't imply profit...and even if you do want to consider the possibility of it implying something, "in any manner" means, well, in ANY manner - including loaning it without money.
homeagain1Mar 27, 2008
No. MP3 is considered an open standard. Same with AAC. It has patents, but that's a different issue.
fakeollieMar 27, 2008
Microsoft being Microsoft (big pockets, market bullying), they subsidize WMA/WMV licensing for gadgets and appliances in order to acquire marketshare gain for their platform of digital media solutions (because it eventually would translate into more license sales and adoption of other Microsoft-owned technologies, such as Microsoft Windows, Windows Media Player, etc). AAC being a child of many parents, the greediest of them Fraunhofer and Dolby, have no such agenda to push, and live exclusive off licensing and royalties fees. So they don't subsidize anything. Since there's no universal consumer demand for AAC (not nearly as much as MP3), you always see more Car Players, Portable Gadgets, DVD Players playing WMA than you see playing AAC. It's just cheaper for manufacturers.
skeletorcaresMar 27, 2008
^^^ comment auto blocked i'm sure it's retarded ^^^ macParrot is the worst, most ignorant fanboy out there, with no common sense,its not even worth wasting my time reading what the idiot says. Check out his wicket disgusting site, its as bland and stupid as he is.
bdbrMar 27, 2008
Loan doesn't imply profit...and even if you do want to consider the possibility of it implying something, "in any manner" means, well, in ANY manner - including loaning it without money.
epyon180Mar 27, 2008
That makes perfect sense, the record labels want more competition to lower their profit ! The record labels have never cared about the consumer.
michaelz92Mar 28, 2008
Yeah, and did you mention the files are encoded into 160 VBR mp3's. Quality sucks. I do like that there isn't non major label stuff though.