But again, Apple does offer interoperability, in a documented and supported way.
In a second class, highly crippled way. There is no Sync capability. No playlist support.
The fact that they can not prevent you from drag-and-drop using your computer's operating system hardly constitutes a level playing field.
The grandparent message is correct. Apple offers a documented and supported way getting just about anything you want from iTunes; it's called AppleEvent support. I have written code that employs AppleEvents to access all kinds of iTunes information. For example, I've written a routine that iterates through playlists of all kinds and extracts their contents. I've queried the location of media files. Put simply, everything you need to write a third party app that synchronizes your media with iTunes is right there in the application's AppleEvent dictionary.
If you're willing to pay an additional $300 for a phone you can install your own applications on, you could put $201 of that money back in your pocket and spend just $99 to become a registered iPhone developer. Once you've done that, you'll have a developer certificate that permits you to create and install as many applications as you want on your device.
If your applications work well, you could then either give them away via the App Store or, if you choose, you might even get compensated for your effort. In the latter case, you could very likely recover at least the $99 you invested.
Seems to me like the Touch was a good choice after all.
The new Apple keyboard has the same great tactile feels as their MacBook/MacBook Pro keyboards do. I've long felt that their laptop keyboards were superior to the white, full-size ones they had been shipping, and the new keyboard brings that great feel to my Mac Pro.
I can type far more quickly on the new aluminum keyboards than the one it replaces. It's the best keyboard I've used since my old Extended Keyboard II.
Steve Jobs had nothing to do with OpenDoc except to kill the project after taking the helm at Apple. OpenDoc was developed by Apple (in partnership with IBM, incidentally) while Jobs was busy with NeXT and his other company was producing "Toy Story".
In fact, during an event titled "A Fireside Chat with Steve Jobs" in early 1997 (while he was still an "advisor" to Gil Amelio), an OpenDoc proponent blasted Jobs for discounting the technology and accused him of being ignorant. To this, Jobs' response began with the statement "You can please some of the people some of the time..."
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But again, Apple does offer interoperability, in a documented and supported way.
In a second class, highly crippled way. There is no Sync capability. No playlist support.
The fact that they can not prevent you from drag-and-drop using your computer's operating system hardly constitutes a level playing field.
The grandparent message is correct. Apple offers a documented and supported way getting just about anything you want from iTunes; it's called AppleEvent support. I have written code that employs AppleEvents to access all kinds of iTunes information. For example, I've written a routine that iterates through playlists of all kinds and extracts their contents. I've queried the location of media files. Put simply, everything you need to write a third party app that synchronizes your media with iTunes is right there in the application's AppleEvent dictionary.
If you're willing to pay an additional $300 for a phone you can install your own applications on, you could put $201 of that money back in your pocket and spend just $99 to become a registered iPhone developer. Once you've done that, you'll have a developer certificate that permits you to create and install as many applications as you want on your device.
If your applications work well, you could then either give them away via the App Store or, if you choose, you might even get compensated for your effort. In the latter case, you could very likely recover at least the $99 you invested.
Seems to me like the Touch was a good choice after all.
The new Apple keyboard has the same great tactile feels as their MacBook/MacBook Pro keyboards do. I've long felt that their laptop keyboards were superior to the white, full-size ones they had been shipping, and the new keyboard brings that great feel to my Mac Pro.
I can type far more quickly on the new aluminum keyboards than the one it replaces. It's the best keyboard I've used since my old Extended Keyboard II.
It's funny because it's true. ;-)
Steve Jobs had nothing to do with OpenDoc except to kill the project after taking the helm at Apple. OpenDoc was developed by Apple (in partnership with IBM, incidentally) while Jobs was busy with NeXT and his other company was producing "Toy Story".
In fact, during an event titled "A Fireside Chat with Steve Jobs" in early 1997 (while he was still an "advisor" to Gil Amelio), an OpenDoc proponent blasted Jobs for discounting the technology and accused him of being ignorant. To this, Jobs' response began with the statement "You can please some of the people some of the time..."