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Apple Introduces iTunes Music Store, iTunes 4, new iPod
The store also offers exclusive music, music videos, and other multimedia, all in the main iTunes window. iTunes 4 will be available now (along with QuickTime 6.2), and the music store will be available today. It is Mac-only now, but will be available for Windows by the end of the year.
As a compromise to help prevent piracy, you must change your playlist every 10 CD burns, and you may share the music with only three other Macs (you may modify the list of computers that the music may be shared with at any time). There was no word on the technology used to handle this DRM.
The iTunes playlist sharing allows sharing of playlists, and the streaming of music from one machine to the other, though copying is not supported ("that would be verboten," Jobs added).
The new iPods will be $299 (10GB), $399 (15GB), and $499 (30GB). The dock holds the iPod upright, and has a line-out. The FireWire port is now on the bottom of the unit, and the buttons have been moved up higher, just below the screen, in a row. The improved screen features a backlight. The new units will be in Apple stores on Friday.
At a buck a song, I have a 'Ramones greatest hits' that'd cost about 60 bucks for the lesser-quality Apple version.
Mac fanatics seem to really like spending money, so they'll lap this shit up. They're the kind of customers most corporations would kill for.
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Mod me to troll, flamebait if you wish, but let's look at the facts:
99 cents per track.
Mandatory changing of playlist every 10 burns
Limitations on sharing with friends
Proprietary format
If MS did this, we'd - and I mean myself included - be screaming bloody murder. But since this is APPLE, and APPLE IS COOL, it's ok.
I don't think it's OK, and until the price is right, and it is realized that the consumer market will settle for nothing but NO DRM WHATSOEVER, all that seperates Apple's new service from the legions of failures before it is the zealot-like brand loyalty.
You arent going to stop the poor from using Napster like programs until you bring the price of music down to their level.
Just like if all resturants were expensive as hell fancy resturants which required tips, and there were no fast food resturants like mc donalds, poor people would never go to resturants. Sure you could try to offer smaller dishes to the poor, but they still wouldnt buy it because then they'd get less food.
What would they do? They'd make their own food and not go to resturants. SO I dont see how this solves anything, rich people who went to resturants before will go to the resturants selling smaller dishes, but the poor will still not buy food from resturants.
I wont be buying music at $1 a song because I cannot afford it, period, thats all there is to it, I think music is over priced, alot of people (millions) agree with me. Until I'm an upper class rich person like you, I'm going to continue to think this, and I think most college students who arent upper class and rich like you agree with me.
So until you release a music service for OUR class and age range of people, why should I care? I want cheap music. Its that simple.
How hard is it for rich people like you to understand? I'm sure you were poor before, or in college before, when you have to worry about just getting 3 meals a day, you arent caring about spending a dollar on music, that dollar is lunch!
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I wouldnt consider us cheakskates, these older guys act like they never were in college before, maybe they were born rich or something, but some people have to work their way up and cannot afford to waste hundreds of dollars on music.
For $1 a track I can see $100 being wasted REALLY quick.
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If I offered you 1 million dollars you wouldnt accept it because you didnt earn it? I mean if I give you a million dollars, you would have STOLEN MONEY! OH NO!!
No, I wouldn't take it. Just like I don't buy lottery tickets. I earn my wealth in the best ways I can. Maybe you should try it. Not like this makes any sense what so ever anyway. This is like arguing that apples are better than peaches because Zebras have spots.
I didnt complain about the price of music until the music industry complained about me not buying music, well if they are going to complain about how I'm not buying music, I get to complain about how they over price music, I mean how can you expect me to buy music when it is out of my price range and then say that I'm destroying the music industry, start passing all these ridiculous laws, I mean look at the whole situation, not just what I say on a msg board and then it begins to make sense.
You have no right to complain about music. You don't have money to buy it, so shut up. If you had money to buy it, and didn't, then you could have an opinion. It's not even like you are too young to vote and complaining about an election. You are like a bum, complaining that someone driving a Benz owes you something. Nothing that you say makes sense. You are crying like a little bitch with a skinned knee because you are too proud to get a job. Congratulations on your degree, now why don't you try doing something with your life that means something?
No you dont work harder, you just have more clout, experience, and are lucky.
Oh? I don't work harder? Go ahead and tell my clients that. You are right, I do have more experience because I know how to talk to people and establish a network and I don't think I'm entitled to something in which I'm not. You should try to figure that out, maybe you will be happier in life. Not that I care, I think the world would be a better place if you just offed yourself and made room for someone who didn't whine so much.
and theres more people like me than people like you in the market, if there wasnt, we wouldnt have 100 million people using Kazaa and 4-5 million people using MAC.
No, there aren't more people like me, than you. You are in the minority. Most people have jobs. I use Kazaa, but I still own a copy of 90% of the songs I have on mp3. So what's your point?
People buy whats cheap because the average person is poor, or have a family to take care of, you are a single guy with a good job, you are rare unless you are in San Francisco or Boston and then you arent so rare.
Average person is poor. Uhm, you do realize that poor is a subjective word meaning you make less money than the average person. No fucking wonder you don't have a job, you're illiterate.
Its hard as hell to find a job in a depression, The economy has been losing jobs for the last few years, its hard to find a job and even if I somehow manage to find one, I can expect to make about $10 an hour tops, which is pennies. Getting a job gives me just enough money to the movies once per week, or buy a couple CDs a month, I did the calculation, I'd have around $20 a week of money I can actually spend on myself if I get an average part time job, after all my bills thats about all I'd have, and hey I'd even want that, I'm looking for a job right now and if it were easier to find a job than to complain about not having one, maybe everyone in the USA would have a job, its not easy to find a job.
Oh, good for you. Get a fucking job and stop bitching. Shit. You are not entitled to a movie, or a few CDs a month. You are entitled to not fucking bitch about your life because you make your life. Not me, not anybody. You! Yes, that's right. It's all your fault. Nobody elses. Don't blame the economy, because I moved to a town I don't know anybody in right in the worst part of it. I moved to a town that had record unemployment rates. I also was only unemplo
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