Apple and Motorola reached agreement with itunes and the fairplay drm on Motorola produced hardware, so it has been done.
Apple is in the "value add"/"whole experience" business. Real doesn't add any value to Apple's side of the biz, they just take away. From the consumer side, Apple is betting their "whole experience" solution is more attractive and worth more to the buyer.
If you buy downloads from Apple, you can put it on itunes/ipod. If you buy audio CDs from anywhere, you can put it on itunes/ipod. If you get/buy mp3's from anywhere, you can put it oon itunes/iod.
I guess the question is, this short "sale period" aside - if one is willing to buy downloads from Apple, why would anyone buy from Real? and why should Apple let Real "dirty" the "experience" that Apple has invested so much in?
Isn't this like a franchise? if you want to use the ipod, you need to play by Apple's rules and standards....just like Subway, if you want to sell sandwiches in our stores, you need to buy into our marketing/franchise and make them the way we tell you....if you don't like it, fine, go setup your own sandwich shop!
well, "government regulated" capitalism any way....and not that I necessarily disagree with that, but with all the "laws" and "regs" associated with this "market" this is hardly unfettered capitalism....now maybe in the original Napster days......besides, once successful, most capitalists don't want capitalism any more, they want government protection thru regulation and other barriers of entry....that is why they pay lobbyists.
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--->Here you're just wrong -- OTA signals are often BETTER than via cable because cable companies can compress their QAM signal as much as they'd like. OTA requires the diginal feed to use the full 19.2mb/s stream, so as long as they're not multicasting you're often getting a better-quality feed.----
Am I missing something -- doesn't this assume you can get some quality OTA reception of any kind let alone HD? I wonder what % of the U.S. got cable/sat because their reception sucks otherwise....
,,,and that works if you were going to do it only for a few months. But let's say you subscribe a whole year -- $120. You can buy *at least* 120 songs for that and maybe more with album format. Now string it to two years....
this is ultimately why most buy a house and not rent them for 30 years....it may not be the 100% correct model, but it rings true for most...plus I can't stream to my car, I can stream while I am eating lunch at subway or stream at work, etc,,,,,that is the DEMAND world. I want it *WHEN* I want it and *WHERE* I want it....
...particularly why not QT considering all the Car Talk shows are available in iTunes........we have QT installed in all our XP machines no problem except with MS purposely breaks it --- as in PowerPoint...there are simple ways to avoid the "update to QT Pro" window---as already stated elsewhere in responses. Even so, is this message *really* any worse than the secret spam/communications that MS does behind the scenes with its passport nonsense.....and the update is only $29. You spend more on coffee during the week.
Hmmmm...this sounds like the "but-it's-a-feature" explanation MS used in it's KB about how to avoid spoofed hyperlinks in IE:
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Things that you can do to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks
The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar yourself. By manually typing the URL in the address bar, you can verify the information that Internet Explorer uses to access the destination Web site. To do so, type the URL in the Address bar, and then press ENTER.
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It makes you wonder how the Napster "free" model to Penn State is sustainable *OR* just how much Penn State is paying.
From the university point of view, this was all done to avoid the rath of Congress, who was being poked into action by the lobbyists from the RIAA as the result of all the illegal copyright-violating P2P downloading done by the students.
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Apple and Motorola reached agreement with itunes and the fairplay drm on Motorola produced hardware, so it has been done.
...if you don't like it, fine, go setup your own sandwich shop!
Apple is in the "value add"/"whole experience" business. Real doesn't add any value to Apple's side of the biz, they just take away. From the consumer side, Apple is betting their "whole experience" solution is more attractive and worth more to the buyer.
If you buy downloads from Apple, you can put it on itunes/ipod.
If you buy audio CDs from anywhere, you can put it on itunes/ipod.
If you get/buy mp3's from anywhere, you can put it oon itunes/iod.
I guess the question is, this short "sale period" aside - if one is willing to buy downloads from Apple, why would anyone buy from Real? and why should Apple let Real "dirty" the "experience" that Apple has invested so much in?
Isn't this like a franchise? if you want to use the ipod, you need to play by Apple's rules and standards....just like Subway, if you want to sell sandwiches in our stores, you need to buy into our marketing/franchise and make them the way we tell you.
well, "government regulated" capitalism any way....and not that I necessarily disagree with that, but with all the "laws" and "regs" associated with this "market" this is hardly unfettered capitalism. ...now maybe in the original Napster days... ...besides, once successful, most capitalists don't want capitalism any more, they want government protection thru regulation and other barriers of entry....that is why they pay lobbyists.
You said: --->Here you're just wrong -- OTA signals are often BETTER than via cable because cable companies can compress their QAM signal as much as they'd like. OTA requires the diginal feed to use the full 19.2mb/s stream, so as long as they're not multicasting you're often getting a better-quality feed.---- Am I missing something -- doesn't this assume you can get some quality OTA reception of any kind let alone HD? I wonder what % of the U.S. got cable/sat because their reception sucks otherwise....
,,,and that works if you were going to do it only for a few months. But let's say you subscribe a whole year -- $120. You can buy *at least* 120 songs for that and maybe more with album format. Now string it to two years....
..plus I can't stream to my car, I can stream while I am eating lunch at subway or stream at work, etc ,,,,,that is the DEMAND world. I want it *WHEN* I want it and *WHERE* I want it....
this is ultimately why most buy a house and not rent them for 30 years....it may not be the 100% correct model, but it rings true for most.
Have ipod, have music, will travel!
...particularly why not QT considering all the Car Talk shows are available in iTunes..... ...we have QT installed in all our XP machines no problem except with MS purposely breaks it --- as in PowerPoint ...there are simple ways to avoid the "update to QT Pro" window---as already stated elsewhere in responses. Even so, is this message *really* any worse than the secret spam/communications that MS does behind the scenes with its passport nonsense. ....and the update is only $29. You spend more on coffee during the week.
Hmmmm...this sounds like the "but-it's-a-feature" explanation MS used in it's KB about how to avoid spoofed hyperlinks in IE: -------- Things that you can do to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar yourself. By manually typing the URL in the address bar, you can verify the information that Internet Explorer uses to access the destination Web site. To do so, type the URL in the Address bar, and then press ENTER. -------------
...but 10 internet years only is 10 months in real time.
It makes you wonder how the Napster "free" model to Penn State is sustainable *OR* just how much Penn State is paying.
From the university point of view, this was all done to avoid the rath of Congress, who was being poked into action by the lobbyists from the RIAA as the result of all the illegal copyright-violating P2P downloading done by the students.
I wonder if it was worth it?
...and this is the same "large percentage of users" who can't program their VCR, patch windows and update virus defs? I don't think so.