Apple to Launch iTunes for Windows

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Apple to Launch iTunes for Windows

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 9, 2003 @06:41AM from the bracing-for-impact dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to this AppleInsider.com article published earlier this morning, Apple has planned an event for next Thursday to formally introduce their iTunes player and online music store for the Windows platform."

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Comment removed by account_deleted · 2003-10-09 06:50 · Score: 2, Funny

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WooHoo! by PSaltyDS · 2003-10-09 06:52 · Score: 2, Funny

Now I can listen to my... Hey! What's a GPF? Blue screen of who? Where'd my music go?!

Any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.

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Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. - Geek's corollary to Clarke's law
Re:I fear this is too late by vf123 · 2003-10-09 07:01 · Score: 2, Funny

The only issue with MusicMatch's system is the fact you have to use MusicMatch at some point. It has one of the worst UI's out there.

Compared to iTunes for ease of use or even Windows Media Player it's almost unusable.
Re:Why? by pyros · 2003-10-09 07:06 · Score: 3, Funny

Apparently you've never wanted to play your music on any non-apple product without first expanding your files to 12x their original size, and then possibly having to re-compress them to another format.
I know I've cursed not having an apple product around to listen to my music on a stupid redbook audio CD created with iTunes. Those Apple pirates need to learn we won't tolerate that kind of vendor lock-in.
Tinfoil Hat Haiku by SuperKendall · 2003-10-09 07:32 · Score: 1, Funny

In honor of the parent post, I present to the world the Tinfoil Hat Haiku to attach to all such submissions from the paranoid fringe:

Farfetched rant I read
Could signs be any clearer?
Tinfoil hat too tight.

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"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Re:How about some parity here? by Enrico+Pulatzo · 2003-10-09 07:37 · Score: 2, Funny

They've got one...it sucks. Use MPlayer instead.
Finally... by bunhed · 2003-10-09 08:05 · Score: 4, Funny

Now they just need to port the rest of OS/X to windows and we'd have something!! :)
Re:Why? by Thorkytel+Ant-Head · 2003-10-09 08:33 · Score: 4, Funny

I agree completely! I don't understand why Apple couldn't just make every standard CD player able to play compressed audio formats. Damn you Apple!

Face it: Having to expand your files to 12x their original size is a result of standard CD players not being able to read compressed audio, not a result of anything that Apple has done. If you download a pirated MP3 file off of Kazaa, you're still going to need to burn it to CD to play it on a standard CD player. Your criticisms apply that it's Apple's fault, where it's not.
Re:This article also on by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-09 08:35 · Score: 1, Funny

>More importantly, why is Slashdot becoming part of the rumour mill?

You must be new here.
Re:The wait by clifyt · 2003-10-09 08:48 · Score: 2, Funny

You are VERY right.

The original poster should edit his post to say 94.5%.
No, I'm New Here by New+Here · 2003-10-09 09:01 · Score: 1, Funny

No, I'm New Here