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Deluding themselves
One of the reasons I think Apple’s iTunes software and its iPod portable music player will continue to be dominant for at least another three to five years is that Apple’s competitors seem to be completely deluded as to their market share, the allure of their own software and the idea that people don’t care if podcasts have ads as long as there’s an easy way to skip past them.
The most absurd idea coming out of that panel is that people aren’t downloading iTunes content legally. Unless Apple has completely been inflating its sales numbers, somewhere in the neighborhood of 850 million songs have been legally downloaded and several million videos have been bought as well, even though the vast majority of iPod users don’t yet have video-capable players.
The competitors of iTunes and the iPod clearly don’t know their enemy, and don’t seem to be making the effort to understand why Apple has been so successful.
Incidentally, I’m really liking David Pogue’s tech blog, especially his Consumer Electronics Show posts.
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