That is the way it should be.. but that's not how it is in other countries.. http://www.acage.org/mmedia/#0013.. something the depicted group fail to understand..
(Personally I see this as "hate speak", but I don't know how Canadian law would look upon it..)
Our mailfilter does this as well... which is anoying when you need to send a source package to the production guys. We end up using gmail, how is THAT for security?
As I mention in another comment: There is NOTHING in and iPod, that Sony couldn't have made 5 years ago.
You have just described why that didn't happen. It's not that Apple are more inovative.. they just didn't have as much politics standing in the way of their technical solusions.
As for regaining the market lead of the walkman era.. I don't see it happen..
Five years ago, Sony should just have let their devices play mp3.
Who could have known, that people would eat AAC and FairPlay, if the could have a side of mp3 to go with it?
There is NOTHING in an iPod, that Sony couldn't have put together. How many years did it take Sony to includ mp3 in their "mp3 players"? Do they even have a harddisk based player?
I think that Sony didn't succeed, because of fear of loosing the grip on contents.
Eventually pocket computers that do a lot more than just play mp3s will be available for the same price.
eventually I will die of old age (hopefully). Until then, I will happily carry a separate device just to play music..
My point is; you can spend your life waiting for the omega point of consumer electronics or you can use whatever suits your needs at the moment.
(When I go to work, I bring my mobile phone, my pda, my iPod, a RSA SecurID and my laptop. I don't wear a wrist watch.. you could say, that that device is the only one, that has been eliminated..)
Since when is it innovative to sell music based on software that doesn't work with anyone else's format and doesn't offer any significant benefits over other technologies?
Apple does the same.. iTunes, AAC (not proprietary though) and FairPlay (the proprietary part) the iPod, locked into iTunes (more or less)..
I willing to grant that it is a business strategy to let your formats lock in customers and battle your competitors, but since when has it helped anybody?..but Apple did the same!
Maybe, the reason Apple won with the iPod was, that they included mp3 support from the start (Something that Sony hasn't been able to do until very recently)..
So, Sony and Apple have used more or less the same strategy.. It just worked for Apple and not for Sony.
Maybe Sony's problem is that they really do think that this is innovation. Sony is just too scared about loosing the grip on the contents, but by holding on to that, they have lost the grip on hardware. Sony is it's own worst enemy!
I do not claim that another company could "take away" iTunes sales by mimicing their business.. I am just amazed that nobody seems to mimic their DRM scheeme.. i.e. implement the same restrictions as FairPlay, but for wma files.
iTunesMusicStore and iPod killers come along every couple of weeks.. never a iTunes, iTMS, iPod killer combination (which is the least a competitor needs, if they can't find something truely unique), which is why Apple will keep it's lead.
Apple is still in the position to jump diffent ways.. leapfrog their own products with new, more attractive ones.. supporting wma would not be a problem, but woun't happen unless the monopoly thing gets to court.. (and wma supprt will probably happen before ogg support)
no matter how Napster sells their product, they are compeeting for 20% of the digital music download market. For some strange reason, iTunes has the rest. Maybe, just maybe because 80% of the customers want to keep what they buy? And thats where you have a point: NOTHING prevents Napster from implementing the excact same DRM restrictions as Apple.
So the question really is: "Why do I have to pay the Record Industry, to send a CD with the holiday pictures to my mother?"
It would make a *lot* more sense to tax something that's used entirely for music, such as speakers or portable music players... or guitars or drums or keyboards or.. ears?
no, taxation is not the way to go.. adapting to reality is.
Some of the drawings were also printed in the Egypt paper "Al Fagr" the 17th of october 2005 in connection with an article about the first Danish publication. Accourding to the Danish ambasador in Egypt (Bjarne Sørensen) there were no reactions. (ritzau)
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That is the way it should be .. but that's not how it is in other countries .. http://www.acage.org/mmedia/#0013 .. something the depicted group fail to understand..
(Personally I see this as "hate speak", but I don't know how Canadian law would look upon it..)
two thirds thicker than the nano .. that actually makes up for the extra battery life. I think I can live with 14 hours in the smaller box..
Oolong, maybe...
Our mailfilter does this as well ... which is anoying when you need to send a source package to the production guys. We end up using gmail, how is THAT for security?
As I mention in another comment: There is NOTHING in and iPod, that Sony couldn't have made 5 years ago.
.. they just didn't have as much politics standing in the way of their technical solusions.
.. I don't see it happen..
You have just described why that didn't happen. It's not that Apple are more inovative
As for regaining the market lead of the walkman era
Five years ago, Sony should just have let their devices play mp3.
Who could have known, that people would eat AAC and FairPlay, if the could have a side of mp3 to go with it?
There is NOTHING in an iPod, that Sony couldn't have put together. How many years did it take Sony to includ mp3 in their "mp3 players"? Do they even have a harddisk based player?
I think that Sony didn't succeed, because of fear of loosing the grip on contents.
Eventually pocket computers that do a lot more than just play mp3s will be available for the same price.
.. you could say, that that device is the only one, that has been eliminated..)
eventually I will die of old age (hopefully). Until then, I will happily carry a separate device just to play music..
My point is; you can spend your life waiting for the omega point of consumer electronics or you can use whatever suits your needs at the moment.
(When I go to work, I bring my mobile phone, my pda, my iPod, a RSA SecurID and my laptop. I don't wear a wrist watch
Since when is it innovative to sell music based on software that doesn't work with anyone else's format and doesn't offer any significant benefits over other technologies?
.. iTunes, AAC (not proprietary though) and FairPlay (the proprietary part) the iPod, locked into iTunes (more or less)..
..but Apple did the same!
.. It just worked for Apple and not for Sony.
Apple does the same
I willing to grant that it is a business strategy to let your formats lock in customers and battle your competitors, but since when has it helped anybody?
Maybe, the reason Apple won with the iPod was, that they included mp3 support from the start (Something that Sony hasn't been able to do until very recently)..
So, Sony and Apple have used more or less the same strategy
Maybe Sony's problem is that they really do think that this is innovation.
Sony is just too scared about loosing the grip on the contents, but by holding on to that, they have lost the grip on hardware. Sony is it's own worst enemy!
I do not claim that another company could "take away" iTunes sales by mimicing their business .. I am just amazed that nobody seems to mimic their DRM scheeme .. i.e. implement the same restrictions as FairPlay, but for wma files.
.. never a iTunes, iTMS, iPod killer combination (which is the least a competitor needs, if they can't find something truely unique), which is why Apple will keep it's lead.
.. leapfrog their own products with new, more attractive ones .. supporting wma would not be a problem, but woun't happen unless the monopoly thing gets to court .. (and wma supprt will probably happen before ogg support)
iTunesMusicStore and iPod killers come along every couple of weeks
Apple is still in the position to jump diffent ways
no matter how Napster sells their product, they are compeeting for 20% of the digital music download market. For some strange reason, iTunes has the rest. Maybe, just maybe because 80% of the customers want to keep what they buy?
And thats where you have a point: NOTHING prevents Napster from implementing the excact same DRM restrictions as Apple.
...how much good is a pack of cigarettes going to do your bag of weed?
So the question really is:
.. or guitars or drums or keyboards or .. ears?
.. adapting to reality is.
"Why do I have to pay the Record Industry, to send a CD with the holiday pictures to my mother?"
It would make a *lot* more sense to tax something that's used entirely for music, such as speakers or portable music players.
no, taxation is not the way to go
another great advantage: it will have no "don't chew on Z5" on it either!
...which is also what you would be, to install Vista in the first place!
*rimshot*
thank you, thank you
I'll be here all week.
Tip the waitress
you know, that you can mount your gmail account as a network drive, right?
..
(http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm)
and yes, for source code, 2+ gigs lasts a while
That would explain how the "idea" came to John C. Dvorak ..
I am always amazed about how many different mp3 players are compeeting for attention in the 20% gap that Apple leaves them.
The day Apple removes the encoding software from iTunes is the day I start getting woried. (or simply find another encoder)
sncr, indeed! :-)
the RIAA would like us to buy a new CD, when we change listening device. Very logical ..
ain't gonna happen.
Some of the drawings were also printed in the Egypt paper "Al Fagr" the 17th of october 2005 in connection with an article about the first Danish publication. Accourding to the Danish ambasador in Egypt (Bjarne Sørensen) there were no reactions. (ritzau)
There is a list here
http://buydanish.home.comcast.net/products.htm
Did they find the Koala/Dolphin cross hinted at here with a picture here ?
remembering; yes. Humming, whistling, drumming with finger or foot; No.
The beauty is, that you HAVE to buy that excuse, otherwise "you are against us" ..
.. (about the same people .. muslims)
During the Spanish Inquisition, the same argument was used