Exactly - many of the other commentators don't seem to be getting this. This will be killer for people with tons of lossy, mediocre, napster era mp3s who have just not gotten around to upgrading to better quality stuff purely because of inertia.
A friend's uncle gave some very abrupt advice which has stuck with me. "There are people who figure out ways to save money and there are people who figure out ways to make more money."
I enjoy my share of the new agey, platitude filled narratives that 37signals has been pushing out lately. But this one seems to have been written to push as many HN audience buttons as it possibly can. Sigh...
"If it was my platform, I know, I'd like to be first to market with well built tablets rather than a bunch of mediocre tablet attempts, which could reflect badly on the platform itself."
That' s a bit disheartening.