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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Monday, August 23, 2004Consumers Say Apple Should ShareMedia Daily News: "The vast majority of consumers are unaware that an Apple iPod digital music player will not play music files from other digital music providers, while a smaller majority agree that it is within RealNetworks' rights to develop a program that will make its music files compatible with the iPod. Those are among the findings of a new study on consumer perceptions about music download services scheduled to be released today by Insight Express. According to the survey results, only eight percent of respondents were aware that files from other digital music stores were not compatible with Apple's iPod. However, once they were alerted that several weeks ago, RealNetworks announced that it had figured out a way to re-create Apple's proprietary technology, enabling it to sell iPod-compatible songs without Apple's permission, a 46 percent majority agreed that RealNetworks should have the right to do so. Doug Adams, Insight Express marketing director, believes that RealNetworks' new campaign could present problems for Apple. According to Adams, '[Apple] is going to have to answer some tough questions from its consumers'--especially, he said, as they become more aware that Apple isn't simply trying to sell hardware, but a whole proprietary music package reminiscent of its PC business. 'Consumers are always going to want choice,' Adams said."Yep. They are. [ Posted at 11:07 PM | Permalink ]
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