Creative Sues Apple

E IS mC(Square) writes "Looks like Apple's legal problems are not yet over. ZDNet reports that Creative has sued Apple over their iPod interface. From the article: 'Creative Technology said Monday that it has filed two legal actions against Apple Computer, charging the popular iPod infringes on its patented technology. ... In both cases, Creative says that the iPod and iPod Nano infringe on a patent the company has for the interface in its Zen media player, a patent granted last August.'"

Comments

Re:Mixed emotions abound

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude is your sig really a Bush lyric?

Re:The reason for all the lawsuits

[Technician]

I'm hoping that all DRM will be patented and kept off the shelves each with a huge market penetration like the SONY Memory Stick.

After that then maybe players will go to OGG or plain MP3 and use a simple thumb drive connection and no special software.

I know that is just a pipe dream as the media companies are against non-DRM products.

Re:sweet

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

or I wish I could put my purchesed music straight on my player.

The convenience ITMS offers does not make up for the loss in music quality.

Buy your music on CDs, until someones offering CD-quality (with equivilant DRM) music.

iRiver

[rkuchiki]

Personally I dislike both Zen/Nomad and iPod, and prefer iRiver. From what I know it is the only portable device that already supports OGG, and unicode ID3 Tags.

Only has 64 meg video card

[mrkitty]

The big difference between the MacBook Pro and Macbook is that the macbook has 64 meg video with no options to expand it, while the macbook pro can support a 256 meg video card. I wouldn't expect many gamers to be buying this.