Beware the Apple iPhone iHandcuffs

Nrbelex writes "Randall Stross makes a fresh and surprisingly accurate review of one of the biggest "features" in the upcoming iPhone and the iPod in general, 'fairplay'. Stross writes, 'If "crippleware" seems an unduly harsh description, it balances the euphemistic names that the industry uses for copy protection. Apple officially calls its own standard "FairPlay," but fair it is not.... You are always going to have to buy Apple stuff. Forever and ever.' Can mainstream media coverage help the battle over DRM or will this warning, like those of the pas, continue to go unnoticed?"

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Re:No just DRM like the iPod, but signed apps too

[DECS]

dfghjk,

Thanks for artfuly pulling very short quotes out of context, then conflating ideas that are not related in an attempt to smear the article and glaze a personal attack on top.

And by "nothing but substantiated," you are stating that it is substantiated. I don't think you were trying to be complmentary.

The rest of your screed is just typical of the tired analysts with nothing interesting to say: rag on details that don't matter, spin arguements that are not true, misquote anyone who disagrees with you, and... oh wait, your forgot to use the word "fanboy" several times.