We'll have to see if this is a case of marketing successfully making the product sell, or just making the ad popular.
Many of the wildly popular ads (Budwesier "Whassup", "Yo Quero Taco Bell", etc) were very effective at making their themes popular, but in the end still did not have a positive effect on the sales of the products they were for.
I wouldn't call this a demand. Apple keeping tracks at 99 cents (to the labels chagrin) was a demand. I don't think that was done through an open letter like this one.
You're not paying to use the software, you're only paying if you want to create an entity containing the name "Linux" and wan't to be protected against someone else using that name.
> Do you have any documantation of the "mediocre quality" claim?
Well, the fact that Apple provides the option to rip/encode your cd's with their lossless codec implies (to me) that the AAC codec is not as good in quality of sound. I could live with their current DRM if I were able to purchase songs and download them in their lossless codec, as it would allow me to burn a CD in actual CD quality, but I don't think that option is currently available.
Just out of curiosity, if someone provided you with some "documantation", would iTunes music suddenly sound not-as good as CD?
While you have clarified that the gentleman in subject does not have a disability, you are still referring (with your 6th graders example) to mental abilities, not physical handicaps, as I was explaining in the previous post. Also, to use *one* example to make a blanket statement that everyone is doing this for political reasons is kind of scary. (But I will say that I think this whose mess is ridiculous).
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We'll have to see if this is a case of marketing successfully making the product sell, or just making the ad popular.
Many of the wildly popular ads (Budwesier "Whassup", "Yo Quero Taco Bell", etc) were very effective at making their themes popular, but in the end still did not have a positive effect on the sales of the products they were for.
> What do you think Jobs just did?
I wouldn't call this a demand. Apple keeping tracks at 99 cents (to the labels chagrin) was a demand. I don't think that was done through an open letter like this one.
You're not paying to use the software, you're only paying if you want to create an entity containing the name "Linux" and wan't to be protected against someone else using that name.
God, that is funny.
> Do you have any documantation of the "mediocre quality" claim?
Well, the fact that Apple provides the option to rip/encode your cd's with their lossless codec implies (to me) that the AAC codec is not as good in quality of sound. I could live with their current DRM if I were able to purchase songs and download them in their lossless codec, as it would allow me to burn a CD in actual CD quality, but I don't think that option is currently available.
Just out of curiosity, if someone provided you with some "documantation", would iTunes music suddenly sound not-as good as CD?
While I agree with your comments regarding the lawyers vs. designers, I can't imagine how that would result in the player's reportedly terrible UI.
Well, with a name like crocker bank... ;)
Something like that happened to me here in the U.S.
While you have clarified that the gentleman in subject does not have a disability, you are still referring (with your 6th graders example) to mental abilities, not physical handicaps, as I was explaining in the previous post. Also, to use *one* example to make a blanket statement that everyone is doing this for political reasons is kind of scary. (But I will say that I think this whose mess is ridiculous).
Or maybe he was one of the disabled people there. There is such a thing as having a physical disability and a high IQ at the same time.