Techmeme: So Much Music, So Few Choices (Seán Captain/New York Times)

11:25 AM ET, November 16, 2006

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So Much Music, So Few Choices — THIS week Microsoft introduced Zune, its answer to Apple Computer's mighty pairing of the iPod portable media player and the iTunes music and video store. Though Zune offers a new choice for customers, it also highlights how restrictive such choices can be.

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