Former RIAA Chmn. Hilary Rosen has a bone to pick with Apple and ...

iTunes, while most other portable MP3 devices are compatible with various online repositories such as MSN.com, Rhapsody.com and AOLMusic.com. “I know Steve Jobs is a god. Look, I bowed at his feet when the iPod and iTunes was created because he got the ball rolling… but keeping the iTunes system a proprietary technology to prevent anyone from using multiple (read Microsoft) music systems is the most anti-consumer and user unfriendly thing any god can do,” Rosen said: “Is this the same Jobs that railed for years about the Microsoft monopoly? If he isn’t careful Bill Gates might just Betamax him while the crowds cheer him on.” Journalist Richard Bradley disagreed: “As head of the RIAA, no one was more fervently anti-consumer than she. Rosen doesn’t exactly have a lot of street cred with us consumers.” Bradley argued that between iTunes and people’s own CD collections, “anyone can easily load onto their iPod pretty much everything they want.” He called the alternative sites “far inferior technologies.” Huffington’s blog -- www.HuffingtonPost.com -- features musings by famous friends including Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bill Maher and Larry David.