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The Case For Apple Buying Facebook
The article makes the case that Jobs has been hinting that he wants to actually spend some of the $51 billion Apple has been sitting on, and that Facebook is a likely candidate. Considering how thin the Ping social network is, and the integration issues the two companies have had, there are some good reasons for such a deal. And a heck of a lot of reasons why not.
Yes, I do realize that and, eight years ago, when I first tried iTunes, I did just that. My media collection was still borked and I had to clean i up manually. Then I tried getting iTunes to play anything other than it's own proprietary format and, back then, it wouldn't. I had to download special converter programs just so I could get native iTunes music into mp3 format. It didn't help that iTunes, back then, was clunky and slow. Many of the options to customize it were a pain in the ass to find. All in all, it was a much poorer experience than windows media player and I freakin' hated that stupid program as well. So I stopped using both.
My solution was to download WinAmp which, at the time, was small, lightweight, simple, and compatible with any media I could throw at it. When I switched to Linux, I started using Xine and/or Rhytmbox. Now on windows I use FooBar. The moral of the story wasn't that iTunes had one crappy feature that was too complicated for me to figure out. The moral of the story was that I had to fight it to get it to do stuff that WinAmp and other media players could just do simpler and easier. Mind you, I am writing about when I tried it back in high school which was almost a decade ago. iTunes was a very different program then than what it is now. But what remained consistent over the years was Apple's attitude and theme of, " Let us control your data and hardware and we will protect you from anything that might scare you or force you to think." Hence, I dropped the company and, since I haven't seen that mantra change at all as they grew popular, I have had absolutely no incentive to try any of their products out again.
I have my reasons for my decisions. And they do go far beyond one simple "feature" misunderstanding with one application on my part.
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Last time I looked your wife's account was active...and relationship status was "looking".
sorry for the abuse, but that's what you get for having a facebook account in the first place.
Then there was Murdoch buying Myspace for a vast amount of money.