Dell going after iTunes/iPod ecosystem with openness...FAIL

Dell is using former Apple executive Tim Bucher to lead a 120 strong crew that will try to form an alliance of Apple's enemies to usurp the king of digital music. This has no chance of succeeding.

What I think everyone, except possibly Amazon, doesn't get is that Apple is succeeding in iTunes/iPod because it makes using digital music easy, not because it is using DRM.

Music Labels Rethink iTunes, Again; Same Old Gripe of Album vs Singles

This has become the equivalent of first snowfall stories that local TV news stations do every year: this gripe against Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL) iTunes has been trotted out every year for the last five years or so, and now WSJ spends tons of words to rehash it again, though with some new twists. This time, like before, the argument is that labels would like to sell the albums as a unit instead of singles, and the new part is that some of them are beginning to bypass the iTunes behemoth distribution machine.