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Apple is DRM's Biggest Backer
parvenu74 writes "Arstechnica is running an article pointing out that while some pockets of the entertainment industry are experimenting with DRM-free distribution, Apple Inc, which announced that they have now sold over 2,000,000,000 songs on iTunes, is now the strongest pro-DRM force in digial media. From the article: 'DRM is dying. It's a statement being echoed with increasing frequency around the Web over the last few weeks, and is perhaps best articulated in this Billboard article. But there's a powerful force standing in the way of this DRM-free panacea, and it might not be the one you expect: Apple, Inc.'"
Oh boo, fucking, ho. Apple doesn't want developers creating oddball software that'll dick up the iPod (it's an MP3 player, not a PDA). There isn't one other dedicated MP3 player out there that is open like you want (if they are they have virtualy nill market-share). Apple has however opened up the software to developers for the iPod a bit. Otherwise there wouldn't be the games available on the iTunes store right now. If you want open, go deal with iPod Linux, and other tools. Now if you were bitching about the iPhone's announcement that 3rd party will at the very minimum have a hard time I could understand. Hell thats kind of a deal-breaker for me if it's as restrictive as it sounds.
I find it interesting how you bitch that Apple is a closed culture, yet applaud Microsoft for bringing some standardization for the PC environment. Apple does things in reverse from Microsoft, plain & simple. They start with a neatly defined standard, make sure it works, expand it, allow developers more control, so on and so forth. You can piss & moan about the different business practices, but I can get a hell of allot more done, and with less headache, when using a system thats well defined from the get go than the one that just gets thrown out there once it barely functions, then gets incremental fixes.
All these fucks out there..."iPod is awesome!" "I want a PowerBook!" "OOO SHINY NEW APPLE PHONE!!! GIMME"
Congrats on supporting a company that backs the very reason so many people are pissed off.
DRM.
How's that hypocrisy taste, you braindead fucking consumer?
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Flamebait because of all the APPLE FANBOIS ON HERE.
Three days ago you couldn't get anyone to admit that the iPhone wasn't absolutely PERFECT.
You people are rabid.
Get a life. Apple is a corporate giant every bit as heartless as Sony or Microsoft. I'm sorry to burst your little consumer-whore bubble but it's true.
Oh get the fuck over it already... if the dumb bitch lost the keys to her car she'd have to ask Honda to help. Now quit you rwhining and go flame someone on a Debian vs. Ubuntu thread....