I don’t recall blaming Apple. Did you hear me say that?

DRM makes sense since creators need ways to protect their work, but interoperability does suffer. Specifically my complaint (to no one in particular) is that I am unable to get audio books fro any sources other than iTunes (almost as expensive as buying them on CD) and Audible.com (also expensive and has the whole membership BS).

I am a library user and my library is savvy enough to offer digial audio books, but since they are protected WMAs I can’t use them. And a library can’t distribute content without taking reasonable steps to preserve copyright so not using DRM isn’t an option for them.

Although I am nnot blaming Apple, it would be nice if they would support protected WMAs since it would benefit their customers. I know they don’t want to boost adoption of WMA DRM, I’m not very sympathetic since the customer suffers.

Or how about someone makes a protected MP3 format that Apple and Microsoft can both support, even if each prefers its own proprietary format.