{"id":4359,"date":"2004-10-13T12:03:31","date_gmt":"2004-10-13T12:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4359"},"modified":"2004-10-13T12:03:31","modified_gmt":"2004-10-13T12:03:31","slug":"microsoft_calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4359","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Calls the Kettle Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Microsoft opened up the <a href=\"http:\/\/macnn.com\/rd.php?id=24079\">MSN Music Store<\/a> the other day, there was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macnn.com\/news\/26592\">a comment about Apple and how their system is &#8220;closed&#8221;<\/a>.  This was given as a reason that MSN is better.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;iTunes has done a great job of helping to elevate the [digital music] market,&#8221; said Christine Andrews, lead product manager of MSN. &#8220;We&#8217;re different because Apple is a closed system. If you want Apple, you have to use the iPod. A lot of people want choice and we offer that.&#8221; [macnn.com]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So let&#8217;s see. My choice is use iTMS and an iPod, or buy a whole second computer in order to use the MSN Music Store.  Let&#8217;s be honest, they&#8217;re both closed in different ways.  IMHO MSN&#8217;s is more closed because I can&#8217;t even use it on my computer.  Though I wouldn&#8217;t hate Apple if they opened up access to their DRM a little bit.  Given their market share I think they can afford to let people use a few other players.  There is still a market for flash players that aren&#8217;t that expensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Microsoft opened up the MSN Music Store the other day, they said that Apple&#8217;s system is &#8220;closed&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,136,138,146,154,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-geeky-stuff","category-interesting","category-itms","category-music","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}