Yes it could be apple's undoing...but I'm not so certain. There is, IMHO, just enough "cool" factor to the iPod thingy (not just the device...the culture, the image...) that if Apple stay's their course, I'd bet they come out of it looking pretty good.
That may well be true. Apple have managed to servive as a business based, imho on the coolness of there hardware. Which will always attract customers, in much the same way as designer labelled cloathing, watches, etc..........................But although I Tunes is a success story at the moment, it is not what earns Apple a living from. So i suppose we will have to wate and let history be the judge.

Cory's arguments are very powerfull, but I think widely unknown. There is alot of rhetoric espoused by both sides of the DRM/Copyright fence. It was nice to find a well thought out and presented argument against DRM. I know as a customer, I do not want it. I put up with Decss on DVDs because I can see no benifit to copying a DVD to video and it takes up far to much room on my Hdd, Region coding is a joke, you can not sell a DVD player in this country unless it is multi region as no one will by them.

I would like to read an answere to Cory's lecture to Microsoft, from Microsoft. Anyone know if there is one out there?