Steve Jobs in his thoughts on music wrote that Apple would embrace DRM-free music in a heartbeat. On the other hand, as it appears to me, he doesn’t see current course as a big problem for customers either:

It’s hard to believe that just 3% of the music on the average iPod is enough to lock users into buying only iPods in the future. And since 97% of the music on the average iPod was not purchased from the iTunes store, iPod users are clearly not locked into the iTunes store to acquire their music.

Well, this is all nice, but somehow, I just can’t buy this argument. Those 3% (or whatever number that really is) are most likely favorite music one has and wants to listen to right now (i.e. on an iPod).

On the whole, I honestly don’t know what to think of his essay.