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HP Working With Apple To Add WMA Support To iPod
iPod Afficianado writes to a short piece at Connected Home magazine in which Paul Thurrott "is quoted as saying that HP's blockbuster deal with Apple will have one
exciting side effect. The company will be working with Apple to add support for
Microsoft's superior Windows Media Audio (WMA) format to the iPod by mid-year."
*cough* sellout *cough*
I can see a lot of people complaining about "superior" in the article. Rest assured he meant it to mean larger, as in bloated. We're all agreed to Ogg Vorbis is awesome and M$ sucks, so let's just get back to discussing what a waste of time this is and how much Apple should be opening the code bade to allow for Ogg playback.
The iPod's processor isn't fast enough to play Ogg. It can't even play MP3's in floating point mode without the external decoder chip. Anyone have info on how they implemented AAC?
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Microsoft's superior Windows Media Audio? Who wrote this? It sounds like something a marketer would say. I would say that /. is being astroturfed. It is up to the reader to decide if /. is being duped or if they are going along willingly.
apple wouldn't be so stupid to support ogg to make a bunch of fudgepackers on slashdork happy.
I guess your little post above would be ok, if only you knew what you were talking about. but sure as shit it is clear that you don't.
the so-called "Digital Restrictions Management that infests Microsoft products " is a myth, one that only a blubbering ameteur would complain about.
You can easilly manage your media without the drm in the way. I have multiple windows boxes, in fact my new server2k3 box streams any media I have not only the entire house(LAN), but works over the net. I listen to my mp3/wma collection at work all the time. Anyone I gave the address to could do so as well.
and server 2k3 does this out of the box. Did I mention that ?
oh, but with all this 'infesting DRM' this shouldn't be possible. but it is. which clearly indicates that you haven't a clue of what you are talking about. idiot.
Sir, you are a dickhead.
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It's good if you like shitty sounding rights removal. Otherwise, yeah, it's shit.
My other car is first.
And I'm sure Apple is working day and night to add OGG just to get the seventeen people who are holding out for it onboard.
Seriously, who gives a shit if it's got OGG support? Nobody I have ever met in the real world outside of Slashdot has ever once mentioned OGG to me. Nobody. It's a non-factor. It's irrelevant. It's one more thing that does something everyone can already do. It's "Gimmie something open because I only want to use it if it's open" while the rest of the world is "Why?".
Fuck OGG. Fuck it in it's stupid ass. OGG is the clown shoes of digital music. WMA and ACC are relevant because Microsoft and Apple say so. That's just the way it is. MP3 is relevant because it's the standard. That's also just the way it is. OGG is irrelevant because nobody gives a shit if there's one more way to encode their music and it doesn't have a "Patron" to force it into counting for anything.
Sure wish 300+ other Slashdotters could have said the same.
No one is really talking about the real issue here with online music today.
What brand of whore-house crack is Jobs smoking to dream up the iPod mini in all it's 4GB glory for only $50 less than a 15GB iPod. Does he think any of us could give a log of dried dog poop whether it's the size of a business card or if it comes in those ghey colors? What ass-clown is going to choose to buy the mini and get screwed on the storage for a mere $50 bucks? If you are already spending $250, what's $50 more for some real storage? Are we supposed to think it's worth it because they actually include two types of cables with it?
I wanted to punch Jobs in the face when he announced that price, and with a straight face too. Nothing but legions of goose-steppers in that auditorium, clapping for that sort of ram-it-up-your-arse announcement.
Don't even get me started about $39 white ear buds.
SuckingAtBillsTeatStein?
PleaseHireMeBillStein?
MicroserfWannaBeStein?
Oh, right.
So crack dealing, murder and child rape must be legal also then.
That was classic intercourse!
Not only that, Carly the WHORE BITCH said that Americans don't have a right to a job.
I vote that her job goes to India.
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