France and iTunes.
France is to pass a law forcing Apple to open up iTunes to competing Mp3 players.
This isn’t the prevailing view, but I believe that this could actually benefit Apple and iTunes. For a start, they might sell downloads to people like me who have a Sony player. Secondly, I don’t believe people buy iPods because they like iTunes so much. That really doesn’t make any sense at all, especially when you consider how clunky iTunes is for users. In the end, a closed garden is doomed. Open is the future. iTunes is almost the Google of audio and video downloads, and that is a very valuable prize indeed.
