Wow, radio DJ surprised that the "legal" songs he downloaded can't be...

[thermodynamic]

...played on his portable MP3 player!

LOL, ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The only service that offers MP3 downloads that work on portable devices just happens to be the service Apple has been promoting. Except Apple, who hasn't a clue as usual, is only allowing the service to Mac users.

Um, if they opened up the service to all, maybe they'd make something called "a big enough profit which in turn would allow them to sell their computers at FAIR prices and thus in turn cause them to sell more computers which in turn might dent Microsoft's grip on the market"?

Still doesn't bother me, I've got Linux and I stopped music downloads a long time ago. I'm boycotting the RIAA totally.

[GOPisEvil]

1. iTunes for Windows is coming soon though, isn't it?

:shrug:

[foo_bar]

2. macs will be macs

When Apple doesn't sell hardware they get creamed by Intel-MS. That's why you'll never see MacOSx86, they'd just be another Redhat niche in the backwaters. By restricting the release of iTunes to their platform they sell more bondi blue laptops to gawkers and media types.

[thermodynamic]

5. Looking at the equasion:

I have a computer, let's say for example that it's the $500 one I just built that outperforms a Pentium 4 at 2.7GHz, has 1GB of 333MHz DDR SDRAM and a 200GB HD... I therefore am going to spend another $1000 (and that's just for a low-end Mac which is skimpy on the features!!!) just to get a computer just so I can get the ability to download songs for $1 each that will play on my portable device?!

Your logic works, but that's under the assumption that people don't already have a computer and it's aimed at people who know nothing about computers, can you spell "exploitation"?

And I'm not trying to support kazaa either, a fair system for all should be encouraged. But as the RIAA is, as always, trying to rip off the consumer (and the artists themselves), so how can the downloaders really be called thieves? They're just a symptom of a bigger problem, which just happens to be a much bigger thief.

But I bet balls to bonkers that a tunes service that's "PC friendly" as as liberal as iTunes is will be coming. It's not that Apple was first to come up with the idea; it's just the first company to do it had to find a way to do it without upsetting the big corporate interests like the RIAA. I'm amazed Apple got away with that and I didn't know Apple had the funds to engage in lawyer schmoozing... Apple always claims its profit margins are razor thin, so I'm wondering how they got iTunes anywhere off the ground... (I heard it was a temporary enterprise and also mlimited to Macs because of how few Mac users there are, but I could have heard wrong.)

[foo_bar]

8. Apple's a protected economy

I have a computer, let's say for example that it's the $500 one I just built that outperforms a Pentium 4 at 2.7GHz, has 1GB of 333MHz DDR SDRAM and a 200GB HD... I therefore am going to spend another $1000 (and that's just for a low-end Mac which is skimpy on the features!!!) just to get a computer just so I can get the ability to download songs for $1 each that will play on my portable device?!

or a refrigerator if you dig thermodynamics. Since they can't survive at Dell/Microsoft's (entropy-ridden) ambient temperature, Apple has to charge more money to keep pumping energy into hot air. That means Apple will lose the Mother_Of_All_Battles but hopefully it won't come to that.

[Obsolete]

3. Apple music store WILL be open to Windows...

The Mac only, OS X only version of the Apple Music Store was basically a test run to satisfy the RIAA. They wanted to see that this could be done properly and album sales wouldn't be hurt by singles sales. It worked better than expected and the Windows version should be out by the end of the year.
BTW- check out emusic.com. They originated the format Apple uses (mp3's, .99 per song, etc.) and they offer indie labels.

[thermodynamic]

6. Awesome!!!

I am very much looking forward to that!

And I suppose $0.99 per song isn't entirely bad either. It's well worth the registration fee.

If the RIAA spends as much money promoting iTunes for the rest of the world as it is doing by suing the pants off of everybody, the peer downloading problem would be a much less considerable threat.

[prolesunited]

4. iTunes for Windows still on track

Because Apple plans to release a Windows version of its service by the end of 2003, many potential competitors are accelerating their development plans to keep pace with Apple, that report claims.

Apple already offers content from the five majors, and met with an additional 80-100 independent labels June 5

Speaking to Billboard, one anonymous label representative who attended the meeting said: "When they roll this out on PC, they're going to have all this independent product. It is also going to be the holiday season. It's going to be an explosion.

"We want to be a part of that."

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,111168,00.asp

[ikojo]

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