Ummn, no, that guy's not like me. I have a large and varied music collection, and I back up my mp-3 and AAC's regularly. Mighty wide brush you use to paint with, bucko.
Given the iPod's approach to piracy (an admonishment not to steal music on the package), I'm quite certain Job's didn't push the security of iTMS as a selling point to the labels. Rather, I can see him stressing the ease of use and karmic value to the user.
So it's been cracked. Does this affect the massive quantity of illegal MP-3's out there in the least? No. If you needed a copy of a song that was on iTMS, you could always find it elsewhere if you weren't worried about copyrights.
I use iTMS because of:
Download speed
Gauranteed Results
Gauranteed Quality
Ease of use
The DRM affects me not in the least. I have no reason to crack what I've bought from iTMS, and won't do so.
After the launch I've not seen an ad or heard a spot or seen a banner ad.
Which also goes a long way in explaining there lack of success. That, and IIRC, they had some serious bugs on launch, with customers not being able to play purchased tracks, website crashing, etc. Kinda hard to take advantage of any launch buzz when the darn thing don't work...
It's always been that way, it will always be so. Space Invaders and Pac-Man fed Atari Sales, Super Mario Bros. made the Nintendo, and GameBoy had Tetris. And there just hasn't been that for consoles as of late. Halo wasn't the X-Box's killer app, and sequels aren't going to do it for them, either.
Bad code is bad code, no matter what the OS. Windows just has more of it than other OS's. Microsoft's decision to allow executables to fire off in the Outlook Inbox is coming back to haunt them now.
*sob* ColecoVision. So much better than the 2600. I loved Zaxxon on that machine, and Donkey Kong Jr. and of course The Smurfs, with it's infamous easter egg.
I don't think he's saying that the video game market will die completely, rather, I think he's making the case that without an innovative, "nust-have" game, it will undergo another reduction in size/units sold, much like it did in the 80's after the 2600 craze ended.
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Okay, they're not a branch. But what "innovation" in a Microsoft OS hasn't come from either Xerox PARC or Apple first? Microsoft doesn't need their own version of Bell Labs. They just steal from everyone else.
Let's just sit back and wait for the perfect time to do it, then, 'k?
Actually, you go ahead and wait and bitch some more. I'll be too busy trying to get my newborn son into the Air Force Academy after he graduates high school. He'll be too young for the 2030 mission, but I'm hoping he'll be one of the first permanent settlers on Mars.
There will never be a perfect time for this. Ever. But it has to be done, so why not now?
Years of posts on how woeful the US space program is, and then something like this happens, and there's 600 posts of how Bush is just doing to distract us from Iraq/look for oil/shovel money to Haliburton.
Unfrickin' believable. You want Star Trek to happen for real? It has to start somewhere, and here comes the best thing to help that along, and all you can do is bitch
Have you compared those figures to the industry as a whole? I seem to recall something about a bad tech economy these past few years, maybe that's part of the reason for the declining sales as well?
Wow, what an entirely new level of asinine post from someone who's never used iSync with a newer model cell phone and a Mac.
I don't have a top of the line Bluetooth phone, I have to connect my lil' ol' Motorola v60i via a USB cable, but since I got it, my Palm M130 sits at home, unused. And I sit and play blackjack while bored instead.
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Ummn, no, that guy's not like me. I have a large and varied music collection, and I back up my mp-3 and AAC's regularly. Mighty wide brush you use to paint with, bucko.
1. See below. Unlimited amount of burns, limited amount of a given playlist
2. True. But I feel the same way about my 1gen iPod.
3. Agreed. That's why they make Audio Hijack, the original way to get around the DRM.
4. I've done just that with a recent complete overhaul of OS X on my iBook. No problems, just load your backup and re-authorize the computer.
So it's been cracked. Does this affect the massive quantity of illegal MP-3's out there in the least? No. If you needed a copy of a song that was on iTMS, you could always find it elsewhere if you weren't worried about copyrights.
I use iTMS because of:
- Download speed
- Gauranteed Results
- Gauranteed Quality
- Ease of use
The DRM affects me not in the least. I have no reason to crack what I've bought from iTMS, and won't do so.After the launch I've not seen an ad or heard a spot or seen a banner ad.
Which also goes a long way in explaining there lack of success. That, and IIRC, they had some serious bugs on launch, with customers not being able to play purchased tracks, website crashing, etc. Kinda hard to take advantage of any launch buzz when the darn thing don't work...
They ran a lot of ads when it launched with Tommy Lee smashing the same model of guitar that Apple featured on the iTunes portion of their site.
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Bad karma right there. Never fsck with a company who's CEO has a Reality Distortion Field.
Confusing DRM: Songs purchased from BuyMusic vary widely in burns allowed, transeferring to other machines, etc.)
Limited/poor selection: Never increased from their initial catalog
Poor search functionality / confusing website layout: If customers can't find what they want, they're not going to be able to buy it.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
It's always been that way, it will always be so. Space Invaders and Pac-Man fed Atari Sales, Super Mario Bros. made the Nintendo, and GameBoy had Tetris. And there just hasn't been that for consoles as of late. Halo wasn't the X-Box's killer app, and sequels aren't going to do it for them, either.
Yes. Congratulations. Contact Commander Taco as to where you can pick up your prize.
but does this hurt MicroSoft's ability (and willingness) to do the same behaviour again and again?
Doubtful.
Bad code is bad code, no matter what the OS. Windows just has more of it than other OS's. Microsoft's decision to allow executables to fire off in the Outlook Inbox is coming back to haunt them now.
yeah, but he distorts reality around him. That *is* scary!
*sob* ColecoVision. So much better than the 2600. I loved Zaxxon on that machine, and Donkey Kong Jr. and of course The Smurfs, with it's infamous easter egg.
I don't think he's saying that the video game market will die completely, rather, I think he's making the case that without an innovative, "nust-have" game, it will undergo another reduction in size/units sold, much like it did in the 80's after the 2600 craze ended.
is called Apple Computer Inc.
Okay, they're not a branch. But what "innovation" in a Microsoft OS hasn't come from either Xerox PARC or Apple first? Microsoft doesn't need their own version of Bell Labs. They just steal from everyone else.
I wonder if he's moonlighting for tobacco companies on the side as well.
Actually, you go ahead and wait and bitch some more. I'll be too busy trying to get my newborn son into the Air Force Academy after he graduates high school. He'll be too young for the 2030 mission, but I'm hoping he'll be one of the first permanent settlers on Mars.
There will never be a perfect time for this. Ever. But it has to be done, so why not now?Unfrickin' believable. You want Star Trek to happen for real? It has to start somewhere, and here comes the best thing to help that along, and all you can do is bitch
One look at his website should reveal the source of that delusion.
Good. Then go here and look at the specs of a Mac of your choice. Then go here and compare a machine with the same specs.
Apple is more expensive than commodity whiteboxes, but against other name brands, they more than hold their own.Steve himself announced it was going to happen when iTunes Music Store was originally rolled out.
I'm a diehard Mac user, but Lotus Jazz' failure set the Mac back in the business world for years.
Or, maybe Just a cheaper hard drive.
Have you compared those figures to the industry as a whole? I seem to recall something about a bad tech economy these past few years, maybe that's part of the reason for the declining sales as well?
I'm just asking.
I don't have a top of the line Bluetooth phone, I have to connect my lil' ol' Motorola v60i via a USB cable, but since I got it, my Palm M130 sits at home, unused. And I sit and play blackjack while bored instead.
They're hit or miss. The best, IMO, is Macrumors.com. If Arn says it's so, take it to the bank.