There should be no surprise about his partisanship, since he is a Microsoft employee, but Robert Scoble lays out the case for why you should buy a digital audio player that isn’t the iPod: because Apple’s player doesn’t support the Windows Media Audio format, which is becoming the de facto standard for digital music downloads from online services (besides Apple’s iTunes store and Real’s RealPlayer Music Store, both of which use the AAC format). There’s more to it than just that, so read the article. Though, to be perfectly honest, after reading this we came away feeling more and more convinced that the best move would be to simply stay away from online music stores (and their restrictions) altogether and just stick to MP3.
