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Say Goodbye to Bonjour with Au Revoir, Bonjour
We all like clean and well maintained systems right? One of the most annoying tendencies of all software vendors is the installation of additional programs and system services that are not core to the main application. Two such vendors are Apple and Adobe. If you’ve installed iTunes, or other Apple software for the PC, you [...]
Using iTunes With Other MP3 Players
iTunes is an acceptable music library manager and if you own an iPod, it’s arguably the best thing for you. It is hard to find fault with the yin and yang iTunes+iPod behemoth. But what if you wanted to use the functionality of iTunes to manager your music library, but you owned a Creative ZEN? [...]
How Apple is Changing DRM
Ironically, the music companies are now abandoning DRM because it worked too well. Apple wouldn’t license its version to rivals – so the best-selling iPod drove the iTunes store to its present position, where it is the third-largest music retailer in any form in the US. Rosenblatt says that record labels “have been desperate to [...]
It’s Apple iTunes with DRM forever
Something that just a few years ago many thought impossible, Apple has replaced Wal-Mart as the 1000 pound gorilla in retail music, for the month of January 2008 at least. Figures released recently have Apple at 19% of the market to 15% for Wal-Mart. Apparently the concept of the market rejecting DRM is overblown and [...]
Apple’s all you can eat?
Financial Times reports that Apple is in negotiations for an unlimited music bundle that would open up the entire iTunes music catalog on newly purchased iPod and iPhone devices. The "all you can eat" isn’t actually subscription based, but rather a premium attached to the sale of each device – atleast that is the [...]
