The Ipod

[Lemur]

People get all wound up about the evil Microsoft monopolising the computer world but are quite happy to buy Ipod's. Apple are at least as bad if not worse with their insistence that you purchase from Itunes and their unhealthy market share.

Sorry, I missed the part where Apple forces you to purchase from iTunes. Are you suggesting that you can't rip from CDs, or load up an iPod with MP3s from wherever?

iPods and iTunes are fun accessories, and I really don't need them for my day to day work. So you'll have to forgive me if I'm less worried about the state of the iPod than I am about Windows Vista. No doubt Apple would behave just as badly, if not worse, than Microsoft if it owned 90% of the operating system market. But they don't, so they can't.

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Xiahou, there's Ogg Drop for OS X, which allows playback of OV files. Not sure about what's available for WinXP, but a small application of Google-fu should find you something.