{"id":3371,"date":"2003-10-16T17:40:21","date_gmt":"2003-10-16T21:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2003\/10\/16\/itunes-announces-windows-offering\/"},"modified":"2003-10-16T17:40:21","modified_gmt":"2003-10-16T21:40:21","slug":"itunes-announces-windows-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2003\/10\/16\/itunes-announces-windows-offering\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Announces Windows Offering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a420'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>PR <A href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/cgi-bin\/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK8.story&amp;STORY=\/www\/story\/10-16-2003\/0002037635&amp;EDATE=THU+Oct+16+2003,+02:06+PM\">here<\/A>; News.com article <A href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1041_3-5092414.html?tag=nefd_top\">here<\/A>; much more at<A href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/\"> Apple&#8217;s site.<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P>The lowdown: same usage rights, still using AAC\/Fairplay,&nbsp;bigger catalog including indy labels, tie-ins to AOL&#8217;s service,&nbsp;free iTunes jukebox software for Windows that is compatible with the iPod, audiobooks offerings, a new kids account, more exclusive content. Only works for Win XP and 2k.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Quick takes: As much as I hate the growing hegemony of WMA in music services, using AAC and FairPlay might not&nbsp;be a great move for Apple at this point because <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ecommercetimes.com\/perl\/story\/31705.html\">they&#8217;re not well supported.<\/A> You can&nbsp;only use your&nbsp;AAC\/Fairplay files on an iPod, and&nbsp;iPods&nbsp;can&#8217;t&nbsp;play WMA files that you download from any of the services. Who wants to put up with those compatibilty issues? How can Apple proclaim proudly, &#8220;And iPod is the only portable digital music player that supports the AAC format used by the iTunes Music Store for Mac and Windows.&#8221; That&#8217;s a bug, not a feature.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Also, what&#8217;s with this tie-in to AOL? How will that affect AOL&#8217;s MusicNet?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PR here; News.com article here; much more at Apple&#8217;s site. The lowdown: same usage rights, still using AAC\/Fairplay,&nbsp;bigger catalog including indy labels, tie-ins to AOL&#8217;s service,&nbsp;free iTunes jukebox software for Windows that is compatible with the iPod, audiobooks offerings, a new kids account, more exclusive content. Only works for Win XP and 2k. Quick takes: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-ideas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}