The top consumer complaint at online music service
Napster: Songs purchased at Napster won’t play on Apple’s iPod.
It’s not Napster’s fault. Apple’s (AAPL) hugely successful iPod business is built on a closed system. You shop at iTunes Music Store for digital songs and use iTunes software to transfer them effortlessly to the iPod.
The system works great for iPod owners. For others, there’s a chaos of competing formats.
Songs sold at Napster, Rhapsody, Yahoo Music (YHOO) and other online stores are geared to Microsoft-endorsed (MSFT) digital devices, not the iPod. These digital music players from SanDisk (SNDK), Creative Labs and others can’t easily play songs from iTunes.
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no kidding… why would you even pay for napster!?!