At least PCWorld is starting to think so.
The status of Apple's iTunes today bears an uncanny resemblance to the dominance, influence, and nagging problems that AOL had in early 2000, when the ISP boasted 26.7 million paying subscribers and Steve Case was the Internet star of the moment.
I know some people that refuse to use ITunes because they don't want their large MP3 collections that they have ripped to be messed with by ITunes. I think they are afraid it will dial home and auto-erase things (or rat them out to RIAA) that did not have correct DRM.
It is a strange, paranoid fear but it doesn't stop people from avoiding the software. I remember back in the day people didn't want to use AOL for similar reasons. They were afraid it will "mess up their machines" and used other dial-up services instead. AOL was pretty crash prone in the early 90s IIRC.
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