anome

"Streaming service that has exclusive rights to over 80% of content makes lots of money!"

I don't like that Disney owns almost everything I want to watch, but if I want to watch it, I have to give them money. The more annoying thing is that I have to pay Amazon and Netflix more or less the same amount of money to get the rest of the stuff I want to watch.

Then, with the local launch of Paramount+ this week, I can pay as much again to not actually get the content I want from Paramount+ because they licensed it all to Netflix and Amazon in this market.

Of course, once you put an Austrlalian power adapter, or worse a UK power adapter, on that thing, it's not so slim.

Really hoping they do a USB-C version of the Plug-Bug for the MacBook charger.

JWSC said:

anome said:

spheric said:

AppleInsider said:

Interestingly, it appears that Microsoft was at one point considering a subscription service rather than the content licensing scheme adopted by iTunes.

Er…Zune HAD a subscription service. You had to be a subscriber to "squirt" songs from one Zune to another, or to have someone "squirt" all over yours. 

(I really wish I were making this up, including the names…but I'm not.)

Remember when Ballmer made wireless file sharing sound dirty, and Jobs made sharing earwax sound endearing? Seriously, the Zune had "squirt" all over it, and Jobs's idea about sharing music was to give your beloved one of the earpieces of your iPod headset.

Somehow neither of these seemed to quite meet the needs specified.

The main problem with the Zune was bad marketing. "Squirt", "Squircle", that sort of shit-brown they came in, the lame logo,... The backend services weren't all that good, either.

Here’s to the brown Zune, a la Caddyshack.

What would you do if you saw one floating in a pool?

fallenjt said:

fastasleep said:

I'm sure there's a Ballmer quote somewhere along the lines of: "What? An online store where you can just buy any song you want for 99 cents? Haha yeah right, like that'd work!"

And the phone “doesn’t have a keyboard “ߘ⦬t;/div>

The World Wide Web is "just a passing fad"*.

* He later claimed that the real reason they missed the boat on the web was "we were trying to get Windows 95 out at the time". So I guess he's at least admitting he's a liar. It's just not clear which statement is the lie.

spheric said:

AppleInsider said:

Interestingly, it appears that Microsoft was at one point considering a subscription service rather than the content licensing scheme adopted by iTunes.

Er…Zune HAD a subscription service. You had to be a subscriber to "squirt" songs from one Zune to another, or to have someone "squirt" all over yours. 

(I really wish I were making this up, including the names…but I'm not.)

Remember when Ballmer made wireless file sharing sound dirty, and Jobs made sharing earwax sound endearing? Seriously, the Zune had "squirt" all over it, and Jobs's idea about sharing music was to give your beloved one of the earpieces of your iPod headset.

Somehow neither of these seemed to quite meet the needs specified.

The main problem with the Zune was bad marketing. "Squirt", "Squircle", that sort of shit-brown they came in, the lame logo,... The backend services weren't all that good, either.

Meanwhile, Apple just kept doing new things with the iPod, until they got to the iPhone release. (Some of them more successful than others, but at least they did stuff.)