Finally real competition is starting on the music download market, thanks to Amazon. They have launched their MP3 (DRM-free) shop with a couple of millions of titles. They may be able to make Apple move and innovate again in this market.
I went there to try it…and guess what?…it just works! As easy as an Apple product, design and user interface excepted though! It is still limited to US titles mainly but it works even from outside US, I was able to “buy” their free song as well as buy the latest Norah Jones with my asian credit card (something you cannot do on the iTunes Store) and it was even cheaper with better audio quality than iTunes Store!
It is simply amazing how those big names they change their mind about DRM, or at least, how they are force to… Anyway it is good for us customers, and guys, you see, you make me buy music again!
Now my only wish would be that they open to all their artists, not only by country, so I can get french titles or whatever I wish. Anybody listening this?
I forgot to mention: I was able to use my Amazon account (created on Amazon France) without any problem, again iTunes is out on this point since you must create different accounts for each iTunes store.
