It's just gets more amusing (Score 1)

It's OK for Microsoft to lock customers into WMA. But it restricts customer choice if Apple chooses a superior but incompatible encoding/DRM protocol. What Fester conveniently ignors is that 730,000 customers bought the iPod at Christmas because it's the best music player on the market. And 70% of on-line music sales were at the iTunes Music Store because it's by far the best download service. This was consumer choice working like it should. HP is offering to sell the iPod. That's all. And it's not forcing customers to shop at the iTunes Music Store. It's merely providing a button to facilitate the process. Once HP rolls out, we'll see consumer choice in action once again. My bet is that consumers will make the same choice they have to date. Poor Microsoft. They finally lost one all because consumers finally could choose.