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I'm sure Microsoft will offer the record companies anything they want. They have always offered RIAA and MPAA everything. Obviously, this is not what the users want, because what users want RIAA + MPAA wants. I'll believe Microsoft can beat the …
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Quote: Originally posted by Mr. H ... (Microsoft already licence their DRM to anyone who wants it) ... Really? They won't license it to Linspire OS - http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3080897910.html http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=1…
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FWIW, the new Flip4Mac WMV version 2.0.1 *does* support at least some live streams. The nice thing about MS ceding the market to Flip4Mac is that now we have an "officially endorsed" player that has developers that actually take bug reports and a…
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Where is the information about Virex hurting a Mac merely by having it installed? I thought the only Mac virus program with security holes was Norton AV. FWIW, when I get a new Mac, I'm moving to the open source virus checker ClamAV: http://www.cla…
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For those wanting hard copies, Apple should simply add a page on their website (a secure page of course) where one can enter the serial number of an iPod bought via EasyPay and the zip code, and obtain a receipt (either one that comes up on screen t…
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The press release doesn't make this as clear as it could, but the only new content available now is the bowl games. Everything else is listed as being added to iTMS "later this month".
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I could see an Intel sticker on the box, and perhaps even a few small, tasteful signs in Apple retail stores indicating which models have Intel chips. But no sticker on the computer itself. I don't think Apple would do that for any amount of money.
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I'd take free downloads with commercials, myself. There are a few shows I might buy to keep at $1.99 per, but that will add up if I buy every single show I want to watch at that price. Furthermore, to the person looking for Charlie Rose downloads…
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When the 512MB Shuffle was recently on sale at ALDI for $59.99, I saw a woman walk out with three of them for Christmas gifts. I think it's great, and a good iPod to give kids - it's cheap and doesn't have a lot of parts that can break, and can be u…
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I am not aware of a way to check how many burns of a particular playlist including protected tracks are left. Backing up music (whether by hand, using a backup application. or even burning a "data" format CD/DVD in iTunes) does not count toward t…
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Apple could start supporting video via podcasting at first. That way the downloads would happen in the background and wouldn't cause a great deal of waiting. Perhaps, iTunes could even have a preference setting to allocate, say, 100 megs - 1/2 gig …
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Apparently, the only such show that currently works is the Sundance podcast of Al Franken (which is only weekly). All the other Air America podcasts are only available via BitTorrent right now, and iTunes doesn't support BitTorrent, only straight do…
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What if Apple just provided DRM and paid the license fee for podcasts that included major-label music? They wouldn't necessarily need to charge, and the DRM would make sure that the download was keyed to a specific iTunes account and not being "shar…
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Quote: Originally posted by Lurch Mojoff ... you can choose whether you like to use the subscription model or just buy songs, unlike others (i.e. Yahoo, Napster, Real). Just to be clear: Yahoo, Napster, and Real all sell songs for 99c each wi…
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If Apple does offer a music subscription service, I wonder if they would wait until the advent of aacPlus/HE-AAC/whatever they're calling it this week being integrated into QuickTime/iTunes first. Then all those subscription downloads could be provi…
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I'd be willing to buy a bundle of Tiger + QTPro7 for, say, $15 or $20 more than Tiger alone. I think that would be a reasonable option.
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I think this is a good thing. I hope Wal-Mart also starts carrying iTMS prepaid cards, hopefully at a discount from face value. I could also very easily see Apple attempting to maintain pricing by bundling. Rather than letting Wal-Mart or Sams Club …
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I'm surprised HP would sign the deal in the first place if they found its terms so distasteful. Or is it the fact that Apple is being a bit more aggressive (Mac mini, iPod shuffle) in the market now, and HP is afraid a price cut by Apple (or for tha…
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I am not sure Apple did this out of spite. If they did, wouldn't they go back and change the firmware of *every* single last iPod to prevent it from working with the competition? They did build a new product with new features that doesn't work with…
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I also think that people wouldn't trust Apple to edit reviews of their own products in an unbiased way anyway. Better for Apple to leave that to third parties who at least have the appearance of impartiality. (Not that I'm saying users are bad fo…