[iTunes] Re: iTunes 5

[Travis Martin]

Ditto everything Todd says, including a willingness to pay for a 
premium product (I paid $29.95 for MusicMatch and never regretted it, 
though I like 10.2.6/iTunes4 on a Mac a lot better) I take music pretty 
seriously and expect to pay.

I gave $500 for my iPod, which requires iTunes, so I agree it ain't 
free...but it IS a bargain.

Travis

On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 09:27  AM, Todd Masco wrote:

> Eric wrote:
>> As much as I agree with all the things on the wish lists of people, I
>> just want to remind you that iTunes is FREE.
>
> I beg to differ.  iTunes is paid for by the premium we pay for Mac 
> hardware and the $129 we pay for Mac OS X upgrade every 18 months, 
> plus the $.99/song we pay through the Apple Music Store (no other 
> program can play those songs, after all, without the us of tricks that 
> degrade the quality of the music or the space it takes up).  There's 
> no free lunch here.
>
> I'm not complaining - I was happy to pay for SoundJam before Apple 
> bought it -  it's just that the fact that there's no cost to download 
> the binary itself is pure marketing.  iTunes and the other iApps are 
> part of the value we pay for when we buy Mac hardware and software 
> from Apple.
>
>> As for the switching library thing, you might want to contact the
>> author of "iPhoto Buddy".  This program allows you to switch between
>> different iPhoto libraries.
>
> That's no different from the symbolic link trick I am currently using 
> (and I do believe that somebody distributes something like this).  As 
> I described, there are shortcomings in this approach.  And again, I'm 
> not complaining - just noting that the Apple Music Store locks us in 
> to using iTunes, so in order to get those features they've got to come 
> from iTunes.  I'd be happy to pay for a ProSumer version of iTunes, 
> but I doubt that there's enough interest in "advanced features" to 
> warrant Apple making a separate product.
>
> 	-- Todd