Sony has been losing ground in the digital music business lately, as all major companies seem to want to take as much profit as they can from it. Apple Computers iPod product already has support for the MP3 format as well as its own proprietary DRM based format, FairPlay. Adding the support to its products may boost the company’s sales as Sony is already a household name worldwide and would probably be the first choice make for someone not familiar with the products being sold in the digital music market. MP3 is also by far the most used digital audio format, and so far seems to be the preferred format of the general public.
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Written by: James Delahunty @ 22 Sep 2004 19:16