For a start you have no idea how much traffic our blog gets, thanks for your opinion though.

You might think that using iTunes is hypocritical, however as I say in the post - I have an iPod - Therefore iTunes is a 35MB+ download REQUIRED to put music on it and more. I would have to use iTunes regardless of the fact that I bought music from them or not. No, I am not going to download an additional application just to buy music when it is totally unnecessary. It integrates with nothing, it is not a music player it is nothing other then a downloader. Although it will transfer downloads to your iTunes library. But iTunes does that already. Call it hypocritical but it is necessity. In addition to that I am quite willing to buy music from Amazon but I’ll be damned if I am going to use their software to do it, period.

“…the Amazon downloader [sic] only is started when you purchase from the Amazon.com site.”

It is “started” when you make a purchase… that makes it memory resident, is it not?

Thanks for your opinion about mine and your judgment about my consistency. If you bothered to even take notice this was a letter to Amazon about my concerns about the system, it was an open letter, not a review or anything else. I wanted Amazon to actually answer my concerns. They could have a great service that doesn’t require a download. That is my point! No one from Amazon has responded to it so I can assume that they don’t care.

So before you land here and comment on a story that is 3 months old; I suggest that you A: Be honest about where you are from and B: If you are speaking for Amazon then say that and answer my concerns.

I would use your service if there was no download and secondly I believe the application to be unnecessary, you yourself (Amazon) justify it by saying that it makes downloading more efficient. That seems very, very lame to me and most other geeks out there I can assure you. Thanks but no thanks, I can be efficient all on my own.

iTunes is a 35MB+ application download, REQUIRED to buy a song from iTunes. Amazon’s MP3 downloader is a 500k application REQUIRED for albums but not song purchases. Yet you will categorically not buy from Amazon, but (perhaps grudgingly) continue to use iTunes? Seems hypocritical at best to me.

Also, though you say “it’s just another piece of software that no doubt loads at start-up, taxing our already…”, the Amazon downloader only is started when you purchase from the Amazon.com site.

I’d find your views far more helpful if they were either factually correct or mutually consistent. Oh well.

Installing specific “vendor” software that only works on their site? No. Never. Sorry. I don’t even want to use iTunes, but it is the easiest way for my to sync up my iPod. I’ve disabled just about everything I can in iTunes, so if they’re tracking what I’m listening to, then they’re doing so nefariously. Which they may be doing anyway… You ever see those “video” sites that require you to download their “players”? Yeah…right.

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On another topic:
Small peccadillo of mine is the usage of “loose” and “lose.”

For some reason a lot of people, and I find this more prevalent with Americans, use the word “loose” when they really mean “lose.” When you “loose” something, you set if free or unrestrain something. When you “lose” something, it means you no longer know where it is, or you mean “get rid of” something.

The only thing I can think of is that they might be trying to ensure a “reliable” download. But to be honest, if your connection is so unstable that it can’t handle 60 or 80 MB worth of a download for an album, you probably won’t be trying to buy large quantities of music online.

Amazon! Hear our call!