AT&T and Verizon become the main bandwidth providers. T-Mobile and Sprint will cease exist on their own. Google provides services as Google does Anything Google can monetize via ads is something Google goes after. This doesn't make Google a direct competitor to Apple or any other handset maker as long as the handset maker adopts Android or at least Google services. The iPhone has Google Maps, YouTube and Google Search by default. Google can provide other apps on this platform and with Admob, provide advertising services to 3rd party apps. The X million iPhones that have been sold to date have added to Google's bottom line just as much as each Android that has been sold.
Google's desire to develop Android was solely to get a platform out to manufacturers that would fully adopt Google services. From Google's perspective, they're saying, "the iPhone is great, RIM is ok, but what happens if WinMo gets most of the other handset manufactures?"
Actually the steps are:
1) Admit that you're an idiot for enabling SSH and not changing the default password.
2) Flash the firmware.
3) Re-Jailbreak.
4) Either don't enable SSH or do change the default password.
5) Remember that you're an idiot.
I can't believe how many people aren't listening to established experts on this. Just a guess Kevin, but you're not a doctor are you? Have you gone to medical school? You've got an irresponsible aunt who somehow has been employed as a nurse and is acting very wrong in both not getting a flu shot and telling others as well. Forget about your aunt and her anecdotal stories that fly in the face of people with extensive research and real credibility in the fields that apply to the flu and vaccines.
"One would think that constant vaccine's, medications, antibiotics, etc just make the immune system lazy."
Why do you even have an opinion on this if you don't even know the very fundamental basics of what a vaccine is or how it works? Read just one article that discusses how a vaccine works...just one...go to Wikipedia, or read one of those silly "How Vaccines Work" for dummies pamphlets at a pharmacy. You can read those in like 10 seconds, and while it may not save your life, it will at least stop you from writing things like you wrote.
Sigh...and condoms wouldn't have prevented 9/11.
Here's the thing, entering a password for a specific WiFi network is usually a one time event, so mistyping it really not a big deal.
Meanwhile, you might want to set up a temp with access, but there's no way of doing that without someone with even modest Mac knowledge or access to Google from discovering the password within 10 seconds.
Now maybe keeping the password hidden still wouldn't provide 100% protection against some expert hacker working as a temp from getting the wireless password, but it would provide at least some reasonable level of protection.
I'm so disappointed as I was hoping to find an answer here. I've been wondering about the whole entering the password twice for Microsoft on a wireless network for years now. I have a Mac, and every time a Windows user asks me to repeat the password, I ask them why...they tell me they need to enter it twice, so I ask *why*. Nobody has ever offered me an answer. That would drive me friggin nuts as a Windows user...not just doing it, but knowing there was no valid reason as to why.
Now email addresses on online forms are a different story, they're just trying to make sure you did it correctly by making sure the addresses match. For the wireless network login this makes no sense because if you did get it wrong, then no loss, just that's when you'd have to enter it the second time. I think someone really screwed up at Microsoft on this, but why was it left this way after numerous patches?
Apple does allow you to hide or reveal your password for the wireless network, which is funny because this option is a bit more of a risk than just letting you see your password while entering it. By allowing you to reveal the password after it's been entered, they're allowing anyone to walk up to a Mac that's connected and see the wireless password when the user is away.
Your shell company isn't going to work because you'd never sell the license to Apple. Microsoft would sell a license, and Apple would know that if challenged, they could sue Microsoft, but more importantly, they'd know Microsoft has fully gone through all the legal complications and challenges if they're at the point of licensing. This is one of the big things that MPEG does.
For what it's worth to you and the others, as a user of Apple products, I don't like the lack of compatibility with open formats at all. I'm not making excuses for Apple, I'm just saying why Apple is doing what they're doing. And yes, it sucks that they don't invest in supporting these formats...but it's almost exclusively a legal investment they need to make.
So by your logic, Apple shouldn't allow the use of the avi container because they own the mov container...but they do allow avi. I could give a ton of examples like this.
However, when it comes to open formats that have high legal risks, and at the same time much less adoption, Apple just doesn't want to go there directly, but provides a plug-in architecture.
Again, if they wanted to be heavy handed and only allow Apple owned/co-owned/etc formats, they wouldn't provide the plug-in architecture to QuickTime.
Sorry FlyingBishop, but the original poster was correct. Apple doesn't want to touch Theora, FLAC, Ogg or any other open codec/container because of the patent lawsuit magnet issue.
Apple can use h.264 because they can pay to license it and be done with it. There's so much that goes into codecs and container formats that it's absolutely inevitable some patent trolls are going to pounce on any new format. With h.264, Apple is isolated because they've licensed the format.
With Theora and the other open formats, any patent troll is going to go after the deeper pockets, which would be Apple, if they supported the format.
Apple gets around this, sometimes, by offering a plug-in architecture that allows 3rd parties to develop the compatibility for them.
That list, which is old, represents the 3rd party plugins which are bundled with iTunes by default. The SDK allows anyone to develop their own plugin. As someone else mentioned, Nokia has done this a long time ago.
This could not be any more of a non-story. It's really bad reporting. It would've been more interesting to me if they had said that Palm made the Pre so that it could *not* sync music with iTunes.
And the headline is incredibly misleading...it won't sync DRM music people may have in their libraries, and it won't sync movies, tv shows and most importantly apps purchased from iTunes.
"This fight just got a lot more interesting." (sigh)
No, so Betamax had slightly higher image quality (they both sucked, FWIW), but VHS won the format war anyway.
Actually at the time they both very much did not suck. They both provided much better quality than what people could get via broadcast and with what their TVs could display. As a result, the increased quality advantage of Beta was lost, because it couldn't be seen...or heard for that matter, unlike VHS, Beta always had two discrete audio tracks, but there wasn't other TV equipment or content until after the format was already pretty much dead.
"I thought that was an intentional "feature" of the phone. I wonder why they never marketed it as such."
Casio made a watch that detected the signal and then vibrated on your wrist. I think I was the only person in the target market for this. I would wear the watch when I would jetski. If my watch vibrated, I could stop pull out my cell phone and take the call.
This wasn't much of an feature for someone who could just deal with having their cell phone on vibrate mode.
Also, it stopped being useful at all when cell phones started doing all kinds of data.
So you're ok with the decision, you're just not ok with their (announced, possibly not actual) reason for making the decision? That makes... sense?
Yes, that makes sense. My anger is at Andrew Cuomo, not at Verizon per se. Verizon is no more obligated to offer Usenet groups as part of their business as say Krispy Kreme. If it's not profitable directly or if they don't feel that it's adding value to their subscribers, then as a business decision they can cut it, and that's totally fine.
However when Andrew Cuomo acts like a retard *and* abuses his government power by coercing Verizon to shut down a virtual space where people communicate and exchange information, then I'm mad as hell. I'll hold this against Cuomo, protest him from afar and consider it in all future elections he's involved with.
As for Verizon, had they done this as a business decision, I'd look less favorably upon them in terms of the value they offer their customers. But by not standing up, and not fighting the government's coercive censorship, well, then I'll look at them as both now offering less value to their customers *and* being little more un-American.
My main point here though is you don't mess with Freedom of Speech. We know that. We get that. We've been having government push the limits with laws, and having the courts protect us against laws that went over the line. Now, we have someone in government abusing their power, restricting freedom of speech, and doing it in a way that leave the courts powerless to stop him.
I know I don't come across this way in this thread, but believe me, I'm very moderate and laid back politically. I accept quite a lot without complaint or issue. However, I do believe what Cuomo has done is very, very dangerous.
It's one thing if Verizon had said that the costs of maintaining Usenet versus the number of subscribers actually using it made it an undesirable business, and were cutting it entirely.
I could understand that. That would be a pure business decision. As a subscriber, I may or may not complain, but it's just business.
Instead, this is "censorship", though not in the strictest definition. This is Andrew Cuomo, as NY AG, strong arming Verizon and other ISPs into closing down virtual areas where people went to exchange communication and information.
THAT is seriously messed up.
When you're in government, and you have the power to do something that you couldn't do by passing a law because it would clearly be unconstitutional, then you've achieved "corrupt power" status.
It's too bad that it's such a baby step...just go to the other groups or a pay Usenet service...or move on as you say.
Sure, first the Jews had to identify themselves, and I did nothing because I was not a Jew.
Again, the government, and no person in the government, should not be doing anything which restricts or inhibits free speech, communication of exchange of information as long as it's all legal.
The whole child porn thing is retarded. I personally believe people who exchange child porn should receive maximum punishment and the law should aggressively go after *catching* them. If they found 88 groups with child porn, subpoena Verizon and track down the logs showing the accounts where the files were upload and throw the book at them.
But this is whack a mole. These criminals will just post files elsewhere. Meanwhile, what happens to those wanting to post in alt.childsafety.kidprotection-network, or alt.child-support, or any of the other 100,000 Alt.* groups without child porn?
I have to agree with you. I personally don't like much of what Microsoft has to offer. I certainly can't stand Windows, but a lot of the complaints about Vista *are* exactly like XP when it came out. Likewise we hear how ME was the worst ever from some people, and how 98 was the worst for others, and so on...
The problem is that Microsoft is in a catch-22. You can't make a new OS without breaking some compatibility, introducing new bugs, and requiring the user to learn new things.
The more they change Windows, the more pain they'll inherently introduce. The less they change Windows, the less worth it it'll be to upgrade.
In this regard, Apple has the same problem, but it's a lot less of an issue because they control the hardware, there's smaller market share, and less software to worry about.
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I'm afraid the shift from food production to fuel production is just getting started. This is one case where the haves versus the have-nots could have seriously deadly consequences. For some of us the demand for (soon to be bargain) $5 a gallon gas will out-weigh minor details in life like $2 a bottle water and $500 bottles of "El Cheapo" organic soy sauce from Dubai.
Connecting a CD burner to a USB 1.1 Mac + Resulting error = Your fault
"I do not look forward to the replacement of what was starting to be a reliable, ubiquitous standard that "satisficed" with a New! Improved! version"
Personally, I thought the upgrade to 2.0 was a really great thing and believe 3.0 could offer quite a lot for those of us who may be wanting to transfer terabytes on a regular basis. The idea of a one-port standard for everything from keyboard to drives is pretty compelling. I just hope as a previous poster stated, that it gains systematic efficiency, making it at least as desirable as FireWire in that regard.
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You say that as if the iPod has been updated since the Zune came out. It hasn't. All that's really changed is that the Zune has dropped to almost $50 less than the 30GB iPod and people still aren't buying it.
The Zune may have a bigger screen, but the iPod has a *better* screen. Of course the iPhone has an even better/bigger screen, but sticking with the iPod/Zune comparison, the interface for the Zune does suck compared to the iPod. Sorry, but a fake scroll-wheel doesn't cut it. It's even worse when you compare it to the full system (meaning desktop software).
That's an amazing prediction. I guess we'll all have to wait until Apple actually releases Safari (as opposed to this preview) to see if it comes true. Methinks it unlikely as that's kinda the point of releasing a beta, especially at a developer's conference.
Let's see, you invent a frackin' teleportation device, and then instead of using it to transport hot naked amazonian babes to you, you get all excited about being able to send encrypted data back and forth?
That's silly.
By default, it takes two actions in Windows to move something into the Recycle Bin. You can modify this to be one action. The problem here with the default is that one action can be made by a kid or cat banging on the keyboard, and the second action can eventually occur by the same banging away.
Compare this to OS X, where one action is needed, but two keys need to be pressed. OS X, like Windows is not option-less, you can modify your keyboard mappings and have it just be the delete key (or disable keyboard delete altogether), but the default is Command-Delete which is much likely to occur by accident.
And while both are easy to recover from if they are deleted, it requires *knowing* that this occurred which may be a problem if you didn't witness it.
Seriously, not sarcastically, what could be stripped from the iPhone? It really wouldn't make much sense to lower the storage capacity (as it is, the component cost of the 8GB versus 4GB is more of a marketing difference). It seems like any stripping down of the iPhone would greatly reduce it's overall capability or not have an impact on the cost of production.
Perhaps Apple could do a flip phone with better iTunes support, like the RAZR V3i, only *much* better. But then Apple runs into the old problem of having something lower priced that competes with the iPod, but has a lower margin.
This is a silly argument. Nobody could argue with you that people don't want DRM, do want cheaper songs, and do want higher quality, etc...
BUT...
If there was no DRM at the iTMS, their sales would drop. This is because none of the major labels would be on board.
I'm a Bush-voting Republican. I'm sooo tired of this crap. Ok, we stole the election in 2000. We stole it again in 2004. Guess what? We're going to steal it again in 2008, and there's not a god d@mn thing any of you can do about it. So shut your pie holes and get used to it.
Or better yet, vote. There will always be mistakes, errors, dishonesty, cheating, etc... I can't help but think that there are more people complaining about it than actually voting and off-setting it.
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AT&T and Verizon become the main bandwidth providers. T-Mobile and Sprint will cease exist on their own. Google provides services as Google does Anything Google can monetize via ads is something Google goes after. This doesn't make Google a direct competitor to Apple or any other handset maker as long as the handset maker adopts Android or at least Google services. The iPhone has Google Maps, YouTube and Google Search by default. Google can provide other apps on this platform and with Admob, provide advertising services to 3rd party apps. The X million iPhones that have been sold to date have added to Google's bottom line just as much as each Android that has been sold. Google's desire to develop Android was solely to get a platform out to manufacturers that would fully adopt Google services. From Google's perspective, they're saying, "the iPhone is great, RIM is ok, but what happens if WinMo gets most of the other handset manufactures?"
Actually the steps are: 1) Admit that you're an idiot for enabling SSH and not changing the default password. 2) Flash the firmware. 3) Re-Jailbreak. 4) Either don't enable SSH or do change the default password. 5) Remember that you're an idiot.
I can't believe how many people aren't listening to established experts on this. Just a guess Kevin, but you're not a doctor are you? Have you gone to medical school? You've got an irresponsible aunt who somehow has been employed as a nurse and is acting very wrong in both not getting a flu shot and telling others as well. Forget about your aunt and her anecdotal stories that fly in the face of people with extensive research and real credibility in the fields that apply to the flu and vaccines. "One would think that constant vaccine's, medications, antibiotics, etc just make the immune system lazy." Why do you even have an opinion on this if you don't even know the very fundamental basics of what a vaccine is or how it works? Read just one article that discusses how a vaccine works...just one...go to Wikipedia, or read one of those silly "How Vaccines Work" for dummies pamphlets at a pharmacy. You can read those in like 10 seconds, and while it may not save your life, it will at least stop you from writing things like you wrote.
Sigh...and condoms wouldn't have prevented 9/11. Here's the thing, entering a password for a specific WiFi network is usually a one time event, so mistyping it really not a big deal. Meanwhile, you might want to set up a temp with access, but there's no way of doing that without someone with even modest Mac knowledge or access to Google from discovering the password within 10 seconds. Now maybe keeping the password hidden still wouldn't provide 100% protection against some expert hacker working as a temp from getting the wireless password, but it would provide at least some reasonable level of protection.
I'm so disappointed as I was hoping to find an answer here. I've been wondering about the whole entering the password twice for Microsoft on a wireless network for years now. I have a Mac, and every time a Windows user asks me to repeat the password, I ask them why...they tell me they need to enter it twice, so I ask *why*. Nobody has ever offered me an answer. That would drive me friggin nuts as a Windows user...not just doing it, but knowing there was no valid reason as to why. Now email addresses on online forms are a different story, they're just trying to make sure you did it correctly by making sure the addresses match. For the wireless network login this makes no sense because if you did get it wrong, then no loss, just that's when you'd have to enter it the second time. I think someone really screwed up at Microsoft on this, but why was it left this way after numerous patches? Apple does allow you to hide or reveal your password for the wireless network, which is funny because this option is a bit more of a risk than just letting you see your password while entering it. By allowing you to reveal the password after it's been entered, they're allowing anyone to walk up to a Mac that's connected and see the wireless password when the user is away.
Your shell company isn't going to work because you'd never sell the license to Apple. Microsoft would sell a license, and Apple would know that if challenged, they could sue Microsoft, but more importantly, they'd know Microsoft has fully gone through all the legal complications and challenges if they're at the point of licensing. This is one of the big things that MPEG does. For what it's worth to you and the others, as a user of Apple products, I don't like the lack of compatibility with open formats at all. I'm not making excuses for Apple, I'm just saying why Apple is doing what they're doing. And yes, it sucks that they don't invest in supporting these formats...but it's almost exclusively a legal investment they need to make.
So by your logic, Apple shouldn't allow the use of the avi container because they own the mov container...but they do allow avi. I could give a ton of examples like this. However, when it comes to open formats that have high legal risks, and at the same time much less adoption, Apple just doesn't want to go there directly, but provides a plug-in architecture. Again, if they wanted to be heavy handed and only allow Apple owned/co-owned/etc formats, they wouldn't provide the plug-in architecture to QuickTime.
Sorry FlyingBishop, but the original poster was correct. Apple doesn't want to touch Theora, FLAC, Ogg or any other open codec/container because of the patent lawsuit magnet issue. Apple can use h.264 because they can pay to license it and be done with it. There's so much that goes into codecs and container formats that it's absolutely inevitable some patent trolls are going to pounce on any new format. With h.264, Apple is isolated because they've licensed the format. With Theora and the other open formats, any patent troll is going to go after the deeper pockets, which would be Apple, if they supported the format. Apple gets around this, sometimes, by offering a plug-in architecture that allows 3rd parties to develop the compatibility for them.
That list, which is old, represents the 3rd party plugins which are bundled with iTunes by default. The SDK allows anyone to develop their own plugin. As someone else mentioned, Nokia has done this a long time ago. This could not be any more of a non-story. It's really bad reporting. It would've been more interesting to me if they had said that Palm made the Pre so that it could *not* sync music with iTunes. And the headline is incredibly misleading...it won't sync DRM music people may have in their libraries, and it won't sync movies, tv shows and most importantly apps purchased from iTunes. "This fight just got a lot more interesting." (sigh)
Actually at the time they both very much did not suck. They both provided much better quality than what people could get via broadcast and with what their TVs could display. As a result, the increased quality advantage of Beta was lost, because it couldn't be seen...or heard for that matter, unlike VHS, Beta always had two discrete audio tracks, but there wasn't other TV equipment or content until after the format was already pretty much dead.
Casio made a watch that detected the signal and then vibrated on your wrist. I think I was the only person in the target market for this. I would wear the watch when I would jetski. If my watch vibrated, I could stop pull out my cell phone and take the call. This wasn't much of an feature for someone who could just deal with having their cell phone on vibrate mode. Also, it stopped being useful at all when cell phones started doing all kinds of data.
Yes, that makes sense. My anger is at Andrew Cuomo, not at Verizon per se. Verizon is no more obligated to offer Usenet groups as part of their business as say Krispy Kreme. If it's not profitable directly or if they don't feel that it's adding value to their subscribers, then as a business decision they can cut it, and that's totally fine.
However when Andrew Cuomo acts like a retard *and* abuses his government power by coercing Verizon to shut down a virtual space where people communicate and exchange information, then I'm mad as hell. I'll hold this against Cuomo, protest him from afar and consider it in all future elections he's involved with.
As for Verizon, had they done this as a business decision, I'd look less favorably upon them in terms of the value they offer their customers. But by not standing up, and not fighting the government's coercive censorship, well, then I'll look at them as both now offering less value to their customers *and* being little more un-American.
My main point here though is you don't mess with Freedom of Speech. We know that. We get that. We've been having government push the limits with laws, and having the courts protect us against laws that went over the line. Now, we have someone in government abusing their power, restricting freedom of speech, and doing it in a way that leave the courts powerless to stop him.
I know I don't come across this way in this thread, but believe me, I'm very moderate and laid back politically. I accept quite a lot without complaint or issue. However, I do believe what Cuomo has done is very, very dangerous.
It's one thing if Verizon had said that the costs of maintaining Usenet versus the number of subscribers actually using it made it an undesirable business, and were cutting it entirely.
I could understand that. That would be a pure business decision. As a subscriber, I may or may not complain, but it's just business.
Instead, this is "censorship", though not in the strictest definition. This is Andrew Cuomo, as NY AG, strong arming Verizon and other ISPs into closing down virtual areas where people went to exchange communication and information.
THAT is seriously messed up.
When you're in government, and you have the power to do something that you couldn't do by passing a law because it would clearly be unconstitutional, then you've achieved "corrupt power" status.
It's too bad that it's such a baby step...just go to the other groups or a pay Usenet service...or move on as you say.
Sure, first the Jews had to identify themselves, and I did nothing because I was not a Jew.
Again, the government, and no person in the government, should not be doing anything which restricts or inhibits free speech, communication of exchange of information as long as it's all legal.
The whole child porn thing is retarded. I personally believe people who exchange child porn should receive maximum punishment and the law should aggressively go after *catching* them. If they found 88 groups with child porn, subpoena Verizon and track down the logs showing the accounts where the files were upload and throw the book at them.
But this is whack a mole. These criminals will just post files elsewhere. Meanwhile, what happens to those wanting to post in alt.childsafety.kidprotection-network, or alt.child-support, or any of the other 100,000 Alt.* groups without child porn?
I have to agree with you. I personally don't like much of what Microsoft has to offer. I certainly can't stand Windows, but a lot of the complaints about Vista *are* exactly like XP when it came out. Likewise we hear how ME was the worst ever from some people, and how 98 was the worst for others, and so on... The problem is that Microsoft is in a catch-22. You can't make a new OS without breaking some compatibility, introducing new bugs, and requiring the user to learn new things. The more they change Windows, the more pain they'll inherently introduce. The less they change Windows, the less worth it it'll be to upgrade. In this regard, Apple has the same problem, but it's a lot less of an issue because they control the hardware, there's smaller market share, and less software to worry about. This comment is sponsored by L' Chepeau Organic Tamari Soy Sauce
I'm afraid the shift from food production to fuel production is just getting started. This is one case where the haves versus the have-nots could have seriously deadly consequences. For some of us the demand for (soon to be bargain) $5 a gallon gas will out-weigh minor details in life like $2 a bottle water and $500 bottles of "El Cheapo" organic soy sauce from Dubai.
And what did this administration do? George Bush hates Sun people.
Connecting a CD burner to a USB 1.1 Mac + Resulting error = Your fault "I do not look forward to the replacement of what was starting to be a reliable, ubiquitous standard that "satisficed" with a New! Improved! version" Personally, I thought the upgrade to 2.0 was a really great thing and believe 3.0 could offer quite a lot for those of us who may be wanting to transfer terabytes on a regular basis. The idea of a one-port standard for everything from keyboard to drives is pretty compelling. I just hope as a previous poster stated, that it gains systematic efficiency, making it at least as desirable as FireWire in that regard.
You say that as if the iPod has been updated since the Zune came out. It hasn't. All that's really changed is that the Zune has dropped to almost $50 less than the 30GB iPod and people still aren't buying it. The Zune may have a bigger screen, but the iPod has a *better* screen. Of course the iPhone has an even better/bigger screen, but sticking with the iPod/Zune comparison, the interface for the Zune does suck compared to the iPod. Sorry, but a fake scroll-wheel doesn't cut it. It's even worse when you compare it to the full system (meaning desktop software).
Until June 29, 2007 at 6pm! Shortly after that, I'd start to die.
That's an amazing prediction. I guess we'll all have to wait until Apple actually releases Safari (as opposed to this preview) to see if it comes true. Methinks it unlikely as that's kinda the point of releasing a beta, especially at a developer's conference.
Let's see, you invent a frackin' teleportation device, and then instead of using it to transport hot naked amazonian babes to you, you get all excited about being able to send encrypted data back and forth?
That's silly. By default, it takes two actions in Windows to move something into the Recycle Bin. You can modify this to be one action. The problem here with the default is that one action can be made by a kid or cat banging on the keyboard, and the second action can eventually occur by the same banging away. Compare this to OS X, where one action is needed, but two keys need to be pressed. OS X, like Windows is not option-less, you can modify your keyboard mappings and have it just be the delete key (or disable keyboard delete altogether), but the default is Command-Delete which is much likely to occur by accident. And while both are easy to recover from if they are deleted, it requires *knowing* that this occurred which may be a problem if you didn't witness it.
Seriously, not sarcastically, what could be stripped from the iPhone? It really wouldn't make much sense to lower the storage capacity (as it is, the component cost of the 8GB versus 4GB is more of a marketing difference). It seems like any stripping down of the iPhone would greatly reduce it's overall capability or not have an impact on the cost of production. Perhaps Apple could do a flip phone with better iTunes support, like the RAZR V3i, only *much* better. But then Apple runs into the old problem of having something lower priced that competes with the iPod, but has a lower margin.
This is a silly argument. Nobody could argue with you that people don't want DRM, do want cheaper songs, and do want higher quality, etc... BUT... If there was no DRM at the iTMS, their sales would drop. This is because none of the major labels would be on board.
I'm a Bush-voting Republican. I'm sooo tired of this crap. Ok, we stole the election in 2000. We stole it again in 2004. Guess what? We're going to steal it again in 2008, and there's not a god d@mn thing any of you can do about it. So shut your pie holes and get used to it.
Or better yet, vote. There will always be mistakes, errors, dishonesty, cheating, etc... I can't help but think that there are more people complaining about it than actually voting and off-setting it.