I was arguing about the encoding, people say "OMIGOD Apple is upsampling teh video!!111" when this is the provider's responsibility. But of course it's still Apple's duty to handle the mess with their customers if the content is deficient.
"...as far as I know, encoding is handled not by Apple, but by the providers."
Yes the info was leaked in 2003, Cd Baby reports on itunes meeting re: indy music: It's up to the partner/label to submit all the metadata (artist name, release date, song tiles, etc.), do the audio encoding, and upload the materials.
Should be the same for videos, and realistically Apple won't check every song or every single video. This is the provider's responsibility.
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The 20th Anniversary Mac was an overpriced desing exercise ($10,000, from your link) and was supposed to be a limited edition anyway.
"However the small packaging for the nano is a good first step."
This is a not even a first, they already did this months ago for iLife '06 (New Apple software shipping in mini packaging), the MacBook Pro (pict), Mac OS X Tiger (Apple to update Mac OS X Tiger retail offerings), etc. This is not to say Apple is eco-friendly, I don't know, but the new boxes have been around for some time now.
I was arguing about the encoding, people say "OMIGOD Apple is upsampling teh video!!111" when this is the provider's responsibility. But of course it's still Apple's duty to handle the mess with their customers if the content is deficient.
"...as far as I know, encoding is handled not by Apple, but by the providers."
Yes the info was leaked in 2003, Cd Baby reports on itunes meeting re: indy music: It's up to the partner/label to submit all the metadata (artist name, release date, song tiles, etc.), do the audio encoding, and upload the materials.
Should be the same for videos, and realistically Apple won't check every song or every single video. This is the provider's responsibility.