Apple Itunes headed toward extinction?
Not immediately, of course, but with the new open source MP3 software Songbird touting a challenge, it may very well be the end of the immensely popular and million-dollar pet of Apple (among it’s many other million-dollar pets). Only the future can tell.
Here are some bits from the original article.
Start-up company Pioneers of the Inevitable released an early test version of their open-source Songbird music software on Wednesday, with which they ultimately hope to undermine the dominance of Apple’s iTunes.
The small company is hoping to create “the Firefox of MP3″, a reference to the open-source Web browser that has eaten into Microsoft’s Internet Explorer market share.
Songbird is indeed built on some of the same open-source technologies as the Firefox Web browser, and hopes to tap into the community of independent developers that has helped add features to Firefox.
