NotMinus

That article is incorrect. I don't own an Ipod but I am fairly sure Ipods will play MP3's and iTunes format files. It only makes sense for apple to protect their iTunes format, right now they have %70 percent of the online music sales on %100 percent of the hardware. Thus, anyone wanting to use the most popular site to get legal music downloads will need an iPod, upping sales. If they had a very small market share, I could see the authors point. It would be insane to hand over the technology on a silver platter when they have a large porition of buissness being brought in so the consumer will have accsess to iTunes. This isn't the console wars where the hardware is sold at a loss and they get you on the software, Ipods aren't cheap and im sure the majority of apples profits are coming from Ipod hardware sales.