Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 849
as a consumer, the market share of players makes no difference. what matters is choice. how many portables do you have to choose from if you want alac? ipod. how many players if you want flac? dozens, probably hundreds now.
anyway lossless makes the least sense in portables. lossless makes the most sense in distribution because encoding to some other format incurs no generation loss.
your advantages/disadvantages just don't match with the reality.