This looks like it can only be a good thing for the future of mobile entertainment. Apple has releasd version 7.2 of iTunes and iTunes Plus. As previously announced, this is in prepartion for making DRM free and higher quality audio tracks (right now only from the EMI catalog) available for a steeper price of $1.29 per track. Users can upgrade (for a fee) previously purchased tracks to the new format. Tracks aren’t available yet, but look to be soon.
Hopefully this move, along with Amazon entering into the market in a similar way, will spur a greater degree of user control over digital content.
Read more at Gizmodo.
This is certainly a step in a positive direction. Now if only Apple would make it easier to not have to use iTunes with my iPod... (My video collection has outgrown both my iPod and my laptop and it's a pain to use iTunes on a laptop in conjunction with an external hard drive. Problems start to happen if I want to download something new when I'm on the road away from my hard drive.)
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