You, there's this little thing called R&D... Apple has to spend a lot of money developing new products. Where should that money come from? Apple's not like Dell, who just slaps some components in a box and calls it a system. Purchasing a Mac subsidizing the whole system, the OS, the apps, everything.
I reset it, I reformated it, I dropped it again.... When it boots up, the screen shows a folder with a ? on it (reminds me of when an old Mac couldn't find a System Folder), then it shuts off.
It's ok, I went from a 10GB to a 20GB, and haven't looked back. The extra space is pretty nice. My laptop's drive is only 20GB, over 6 of which is music.
How about for people that have no clue wtf a router or NAT is, they just want to play their music that is stored on one computer on another with no setup.
Actually, Apple's in a good position here. Mach allows "fat" binaries (ie, more than one binary in a single application icon). So both version can be distributed together.
They did a similar thing around the transition to PowerPC.
Let me clue you in on something, outside of Slashdot, very few people know what DRM is. They simply don't care unless it gets in their way. That's where Apple has succeeded the most. It's hard to get to the limits of what they let you do with the music unless you're trying to mass-duplicate CDs.
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You, there's this little thing called R&D... Apple has to spend a lot of money developing new products. Where should that money come from? Apple's not like Dell, who just slaps some components in a box and calls it a system. Purchasing a Mac subsidizing the whole system, the OS, the apps, everything.
Actually, they did.
The XBox shipped a little bit after the GC, and yes, people knew there was an Ethernet connector.
The WaveBird doesn't use 802.11, it doesn't need that kind of bandwidth.
The original iMacs had a fan, until the redesign, the iMac DV, SE and friends. Those were convection cooled. The iMac G4 always has had a fan.
I reset it, I reformated it, I dropped it again.... When it boots up, the screen shows a folder with a ? on it (reminds me of when an old Mac couldn't find a System Folder), then it shuts off.
It's ok, I went from a 10GB to a 20GB, and haven't looked back. The extra space is pretty nice. My laptop's drive is only 20GB, over 6 of which is music.
Mine died because I dropped it while it was turning on. It was a year and a half old, but the batterty was still doing pretty good.
Also, the FairPlay DRM requires QuickTime.
How about for people that have no clue wtf a router or NAT is, they just want to play their music that is stored on one computer on another with no setup.
Capitalism == Greed. If Apple doesn't sell these puppies, the price will go down.
They are opening it up.
I believe that's called a "woman". You should look into those.
I didn't mention anything about copyright and neither did the parent.
The ideas behind capitalism seem to escape you...
That's funny... my OS professor was the guy that built Akamai.
I'd hope so, otherwise Mr. Thermodynamics might have to have a few strong words with Mr. and Mrs. Biodiesel.
There's a bit of a difference there. I'd like to listen to my music anywhere, not just in front of a computer.
ITunes -> Preferences -> Importing -> Import Using...
Or you could re rip to unprotected AAC and not lose any quality.
whoosh
Use MusicMatch and their new service which has more titles than itunes
Negative. Apple has over 500,000 songs, the most downloadable songs of any service.
and uses wma files.
You're kidding, right?
Download, then copy directly to the iriver.
Songs are automatically copied to the iPod with iTunes.
Finally, I don't think original poster meant the iTunes Music Store, he meant iTunes as a jukebox.
Actually, Apple's in a good position here. Mach allows "fat" binaries (ie, more than one binary in a single application icon). So both version can be distributed together.
They did a similar thing around the transition to PowerPC.
GRRRR. Why is /. so UK centric? Aren't the editors aware that there are people in other countries that read this site?
Let me clue you in on something, outside of Slashdot, very few people know what DRM is. They simply don't care unless it gets in their way. That's where Apple has succeeded the most. It's hard to get to the limits of what they let you do with the music unless you're trying to mass-duplicate CDs.
Hear that? That's the sound of a joke flying over your head.