A few years ago Apple decided to reduce the number of devices on which people could play their music and unilaterally made the change without prior notification.
When you buy proprietary stuff, you are at the mercy of the seller. They can modify the terms of the purchase contract at any time (read the contract- it's in there!). That means they can change the number and/or types of devices the files can be played on, or they can even turn them off completely by no longer providing access to keys to unlock files (as was done by MLB). As long as people are dumb enough to pay money for this sort of crap, companies will sell it. As for Apple- they have a "lossless" compression format that is proprietary. Why would they develop their own when open source compression formats exist? Because they want control. If the format is proprietary you don't know what else they put in there. Maybe ability to gather stats, maybe an ability to turn files on and off. Who knows... Why trust them? One thing everyone should know about every company that exists is that they are NOT there to serve their customer's interests. They are there to serve the interests of the shareholders and the only thing that matters is money. No matter what PR a company puts out about not being evil, don't trust them. They exist to separate you from your money and in some cases, they will stop at nothing to do so. TD -- tyler_durden ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tyler_durden's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46690 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
