Simon

Cumbria

IT

Of course, looking beyond the spin and posturing, Glaser does have a point. It is not in the interests of consumers or the industry as a whole to have multiple, closed, proprietry, and incompatible systems.

What USERS want is to be able to get their music (legally) from whichever source they choose, and play it on teh hardware of their choice.

I'm a long term Apple user (some would say fanatic), but I do not agree with Apple trying to outdo Microsoft with their proprietry lock-in methods. For that reason alone I refuse to use ANY of the online music stores until there are proper, public, interoperable standards.