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iTunes v Vista
By Martin English | February 7, 2007
Apple is warning iPod users to not install Vista until they get a chance to adapt their software so that it doesn’t destroy the user’s music and podcasts.
This may be a nasty version of “getamac”, but they’ve had a long time to get this stuff right. After all, you don’t need a special agreement with Microsoft to test software with Vista.
Consider the massive amount of cash they’ve made from Windows based iPod users. Just to play silly games like this.
Of course, Steve is all for looking after the consumer, if only the big bad record companies will let him. I don’t download music for money. Like most people, Id rather get a CD from Amazon, rip it ourselves so it doesn’t have DRM. As a side effect, the online stores like iTunes miss out on the cash flow…
It’s hard not to be cynical about it. As Richard MacManus says:
But I’m left feeling that surely there’s more Apple can do to fight DRM than to simply give a hospital pass to the record companies? Apple is after all totally dominant in the online music industry, so it now has considerable power of its own. They are not totally at the mercy of record labels…. are they?! Because that’s what this article from Steve Jobs makes it out to be.
Though an alternative view is that after selling a lot of iPods and music from the store, he (and the record companies) now have the proof that DRM does absolutely nothing to stop people from pirating or downloading their own CD’s onto MP3 players.
links:
scoble
engadget
engadget
Update: just came across a product called floola. It’s multi-platform freeware replacement for iTunes which adds some of the features that iTunes does not offer.
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