[100_Percent_Juice]

Originally Posted by 100_Percent_Juice

There are 100s of millions of people happy and willing to download and rip music. Thats why so many people have an ipod or some form of mp3 device.

Originally Posted by sperry

You're wrong... virtually no-one downloads music and rips MP3 CDs for play in their car. iPods are successful because iTunes makes it easy for the non-technical to buy and download songs.

I never said anyone makes mp3 cds. Why would you make an mp3 cd when you have am ipod? And reguardless of free, stolen, paid for, on your cellphone, home computer, or through iTunes... MILLIONS of people download music. And everyone I know has "ripped" their cds onto their ipods. Last year Apple shipped 14 million Ipods in 1 quarter alone. Thats not saying how many people have the other less expensive mp3 players. If you go to crutchfield.com out of 128 in-dash cd players that they sell 90 of those are ipod compatible. Which should tell you where the market is going. Sat radio will become the new "radio" in a matter of years just like cable TV turned into basic cable that they are almost giving away.