On 01/15/2009 Craig Froehle wrote: > If this topic is of interest to you, you should listen to today's > Fresh Air on the subject: > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99312293 > > It's excellent and insightful. For the record, my take was that Jobs > did not want DRM-laden music, but, since it was either that or no > contracts with the labels, he figured out a way to exploit that and > sell more iPods (his true goal). > > Now that iTunes is established as the market leader, there's really no > harm to Apple to have the DRM removed, especially since the music > format itself (AAC) is an exit barrier for many of Apple's customers.
That is precisely my take on it.
