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Apple Releases iTunes for Windows
Billy_D_Goat writes "Today at a special media event, Apple Computer released their acclaimed iTunes Music Store and stand alone player for Windows XP and 2000. They also announced a partnership to sell music on AOL and give away songs with special bottles of Pepsi. You can learn more and download it from here. "
I hate that none of these services allow me to play the tunes I have purchased where I wish to!
If I buy a tape, I am allowed to burn myself a CD from it in order to play it in my computer. But I am not allowed to convert these files to, say, mp3 so that I can play them in my car.
As soon as one of these services is not so draconian with their DRM, I will join them.
Karma Whoring for Fun and Profit.
I'm a Mac guy but I use Windows at work and I have just installed it and done some (minimal) testing. Conclusion: Steve Jobs was not bullshitting when he said this is the best Windows app ever created. iTunes is awesome.
This has got to be one of the worst examples of gratuitous linking in a story write-up I've ever seen. Gee, thanks buddy, I would have never guessed that apple.com was Apple's web site, or that aol.com was where I could find AOL on "teh intarweb". Oh, and I was really wondering where Pepsico's web site was... good thing there's that link to pepsi.com.
If you can't find any relevent links for your little write-up then don't include those idiotic generic links, it's completely pointless.
Yeah thats exactly what puts Microsoft at the top, innovation! Innovation is what makes IE so great! IE is what makes Windows run so superbly! Innovation brought us things like the Office Assistant Paperclip! [ERRRRT]
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!? The reason iTunes has done so well is because they got some good deals with record companies. The reason Microsoft has done so well is because they got some good deals with PC manufacturers. I don't suppose you expect the linux company to go strike some multi-million dollar deals? Oh right, there in NO LINUX COMPANY. It's not about linux being innovative. Linux has produced so many thousands of innovative products. How many companies worldwide have sprouted up thanks to Apple? I haven't heard of many, but think of all the companies that are in existance now thanks to Linux. RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, the list goes on forever. Hell, Apple hasn't done anything for my business. Linux is what's made my business of building routers from old machines possible.
In fact you know what? I have yet to see Apple come up with anything innovative. iLife products? Yeah there's plenty of software like it thats been around for a long time. Building and OS on a UNIX Core? Oh how fucking original, good new innovative idea apple! And iTunes, wow nobody's thought of selling music online before! That's innovative! No Apple was SMART in striking up deals with the right people and using clever marketing to get thier product out to thier market. But Innovative? I think not. Oh yeah lets not forget about thier innovative web browser, oh yeah it's just borrowed from the KDE project. Hmm...
I would just like to say that innovation is when you can set up systems without throwing money down the drain at your software. When you have huge communities ready to support you in an instant and help you with your projects. When you can find a problem with a piece of software, fix it yourself, send it to the authors and have it added in. Now that's real innovation.