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Originally Posted by trenken
There are millions of people that love records and own record players, why cant I find any in stores anymore?
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And the maker of Segway scooters said they would revolutionize the world. Until he got bitchslapped by the voice of the consumer who said "nuh-uh!" See, technology and new stuff for technology and new stuff's sake is not good if there's no DEMAND for it.
And in your example - the overwhelming majority of consumers preferred the benefits conveyed by CDs and tapes. They voted with their wallets and said "THIS IS WHAT WE WANT" and the music industry filled the demand by producing tapes and CDs. You can't find records because the
consumer demand is not there for them. The record industry didn't all of a sudden one day say "Well we're going to make CDs now, screw you guys, love it or leave it, suckers." The market demanded it.
You don't seem to get it. Consumer demand is what forces a company's hand, not the whims and dictates of upper management (well, ideally). They respond to what the
consumer wants. If the consumer decides that always connected DRM is a bad thing and rejects it by not buying the product, which a cursory glance at the forums here will tell you is the case, then the company will respond to the consumer if they want to stay in business.
For an example of this played out in real life, look no further than the headlines:
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It's been 18 months since O'Reilly, the world's largest publisher of tech books, stopped using DRM on its ebooks. In the intervening time, O'Reilly's ebook sales have increased by 104 percent.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/22...ops-ebook.html
The MARKET dictates what new technology will be, not the producers. And in this case, you're witnessing the market reject the invasive DRM scheme that Ubi has planned.