What exactly has Apple done that has benefitted the consumer in terms of music? Aside from keeping the "music industry" quiet over MP3, I just don't see anything they've done as a good thing for music. They've single handedly killed off most B&M sales, meaning 99% of your good old local record shops and even the large stores that still carry media have a crappy selection 9 out of 10 times. I had no choice but to switch to online (mostly Amazon) because that is the only place I can find the stuff I like generally. They practically killed off physical media; which ultimately would go away at some point anyway, but they more or less sped it up. They destroyed the concept of an album, since anyone can just go get one song and never hear the rest of that album as the artist intended. They created that "single" mentality, where you only have to have the song you've heard, though I do admit that not every song on every album is worth owning. They may have put music at everyone's fingertips, but they also inadvertently created a culture of consumers that have less attachment to music than ever before. They did more harm than good IMHO. Yes, we are the minority, but that doesn't mean that the masses know what the hell they are doing. Most people on this forum and others like it are the minority because we have decent systems on which to enjoy all of our media. Does that mean there's something wrong with Audioholics? I don't think so. One of my favorite movie quotes: "What the public doesn't know is what makes them the public." That's my 2 cents.
