Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything el…

Douglas Rushkoff
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Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded through the iPhone store - giving Apple control over everything people put on to the devices they thought they owned.
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