aristotle-dude Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Same as how AAC support seems to be so limited on PC's. It's really a shame every company feels the need to create their own format.Microsoft- WMA Sony- ATRAC Apple- AAC etc. 585283821[/snapback] AAC is an industry standard, part of the MP4 standard and is supported by several PC music players including iTunes, WinAmp and VLC and a few portable players beside the iPods. The format was not created by Apple. http://www.ciao.co.uk/Portable_MP3_Players...tive_technology http://www.ciao.co.uk/Portable_MP3_Players...3-aac-panasonic http://www.ciao.co.uk/Portable_MP3_Players...512_3-aac-nokia It is true that DRMed AAC (.m4p aka Fairplay) is only supported by iTunes and the iPod but there are also some portable music players that only support non-DRMed WMA so your point is moot for the most part. Fairplay was originally created by a third party company until Apple bought it out. The only format you listed that is completely proprietary would be ATRAC by Sony. I would argue that WMA is also proprietary since both the format and DRM are only available through MS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lare2 Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Impressed :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oniq Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Its good to see Apple came back from their slump back in 2000. I forsee good things in the Apple world, I *knew* I should have bought stocks then. Oh well! Good for them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galoosh33 Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 That doesn't really surprise me :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insanekiwi Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 saw it on tv yesterday. apple claimed that every 7th sold mp3player worldwide is an ipod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiREFLi Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 I (well my parents) bought Apple stocks about 6 month ago....at the time it was about....$16 a share?...and now it have climed.....what?....at least $50 a share?....LOL!!that's a good investment....not anymore....(cause the price is so high)...but if we sell them now, we'll be going on to vacations around the world.... :laugh: :laugh: 585282264[/snapback] :| I didn't even think of buying shares. I could still buy 'em now and make osme money anyway ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flae_qui Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 this is what i call a marketing trend, only reason why Ipods are so popular are becuase the avg. buyer does no resurch about products. if they did they find that there are much better units out there like iRiver and Creative Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furby Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 saw it on tv yesterday. apple claimed that every 7th sold mp3player worldwide is an ipod. 585285354[/snapback] That's crazy, Apple can't have known how massive it was going to be when they released it. offtopic/ haha Just realised you can actually placy PacMan in timdorr's avatar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raider360 Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Oh my ... :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted January 14, 2005 Veteran Share Posted January 14, 2005 Keep it comin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aristotle-dude Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 this is what i call a marketing trend, only reason why Ipods are so popular are becuase the avg. buyer does no resurch about products. if they did they find that there are much better units out there like iRiver and Creative 585285372[/snapback] The same could be said about windows and PCs. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink Floyd Veteran Posted January 14, 2005 Veteran Share Posted January 14, 2005 bah these are number.. we want proof :p you know, I wash my teeth in 2005 400% more than last year. Yeah, last year, I didnt wash my teeth at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrZoidberg Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 this is what i call a marketing trend, only reason why Ipods are so popular are becuase the avg. buyer does no resurch about products. if they did they find that there are much better units out there like iRiver and Creative 585285372[/snapback] The reason why iPods are more popular is that they have better ergonomics, better design and are less of a compromise than the bizarrely-named "iRiver" and its ilk. Sure there are some downsides to the iPod (battery life, for example) but they aren't sufficient to put most people off. As is evidenced by the huge market share of the various models of iPod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chadwick Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 90% of buyers couldn't really care if one player goes 8 hours, the other 10, all they know is that every few days put it in the charger, same goes for your cell phone. I can usually go 5 days on a single charge on my ipod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L3thal Veteran Posted January 14, 2005 Veteran Share Posted January 14, 2005 Looks like the iPod helped Apple in the long run, promoting the iMac :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mx Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 Interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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