I’ve been railing again the iTunes store and sworn off buying music from it because of its DRM locked files that won’t play on anything except iPods. Since last fall I’ve been buying music from Amazon and telling everyone else that would listen to do the same.
Well, at the latest MacWorld (in which the biggest news was Steve Jobs’ absence and preceding that was this being Apple’s final appearance at MacWorld) it was announced that Apple will drop DRM from the music store. But at a price – an increase of about 30 cents. So the new songs will now cost $1.29 – not counting the tax.
So. I think I’ll stick with Amazon for now.
yes. stick to amazon. the positive thing to take out of this is that steve-o decided to drop DRM. the negative, at a cost.