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Wednesday, September 1, 2004 |
Apple critiques. Microsoft gets something of a raw deal from the blogosphere, they're considered fair game for ridicule, when few other companies are. This should change, and I'm glad to see it is. Russ Beattie, for example, had a succinct, practical and negative review of Apple's new desktop computer. Bravo!
And when Adam Curry calls the iPod a platform, he's overlooking one important thing that users and developers like to see in a platform: choice of vendor. It's laughable to think that iTunes will ever work with another vendor's hardware, it's not very likely to happen, in our lifetimes, even if we live to a ripe old age. I literally did laugh when I considered the idea. That's not the way Apple works.
Postscript: Of course then I immediately realized that HP is making an iPod, just to confuse matters. Oy. There goes my theory. Does the hPod work with iTunes? [Scripting News]
Sometimes is hard to tell what someone is talking about. "It's laughable to think that iTunes will ever work with another vendor's hardware." At first I thought "What? iTunes (the program) works with a lot of Mp3 players!!" but then I realized he is talking about the music store (Apple tries to blur the concepts so of course people are confused). Now, the Music Store works with a lot of hardware but only with the iPod as a portable player, so Dave has a point. What confused me is that must people complaint about the fact that others music stores do not work with the iPod. It is still weird that Apple is perceived as guilty in both cases. In the first case (Dave's argument) it is clear that Apple does not want that to happen (they have not licensed the DRM except in the case of HP that is buying the whole package hardware and all), in the second is much less clear. The iPod plays Mp3, wav, aiff, AAC, among others. People could sell music in these formats, instead they have decided to sell it in protected WMV format, which the iPod does not support. Would Apple refuse to have somebody put some kind of protected AAC file into the iPod? Could it? I don't think anybody has tried to do the hard work, preferring instead to take the easy way out (like Real Networks) and try to piggy back on Apple's technology. Apple will lose this fight in the end, but I really hope it is against a worthy competitor this time...
1:45:23 PM 
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