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In response to "The best article I read today summed it up nicely that it fits perfectly in Apple's view of things. The device is essentially locked to their content" by oblique

Saying its locked to iTunes is a bit misleading. You sync and transfer via iTunes, but by no means are you required to purchase or download your

Posted by Don Homer (aka DonHomer) Jan 28 '10, 08:21

music or videos with iTunes. They can be obtained by other means and then put into iTunes before putting them on the iPhone, iPad, etc.

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with their limited selection of codecs, etc. It's still not what you would really call an open platform -- nm - oblique Jan 28, 08:22 2
- Every media player has codecs limitation. It's really easy to find software that will convert anythng to the right codec -- nm - Guigue Jan 28, 08:24 1
  - Not nearly has harsh as iTunes though. At least WMP can play just about anything with the right codec installed. iTunes has no such expansion option -- nm - oblique Jan 28, 08:26

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