Once again, Don, I agree with everything you said here. Personally, I think a better solution would be some open music exchange that iTunes, Amazon, et al. all interact with, but then I may be delusionally optimistic in that regard.
Aside: It's amazing...few things thought up by companies are truly awesome. In contrast, look at the Internet and WWW...thought up by the government and some academics with no profit motive, it has revolutionized the world. On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Don Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting! Much as I like the notion of the little guy fighting back, and > much as I generally dislike Apple's practices, I have to say: Apple wrote > and owns iTunes. They made it to manage and interact with their music > player, and to manage a music library on a computer. Nobody but Apple has a > right to do anything with it, and they have a right to limit it, change it, > destroy it (if they want to) in any way they want. It's theirs!! They had > a good idea and carried into the market and had great (company-saving) > success. Bravo Apple! > > > > If their success brings them into the territory of federal laws governing > monopolies (in this most important area of: "dude, how do I play some music" > - earth shattering!!), then so be it! I'd like it if someone else could > build a music player that didn't seem klunky or cheap, or just plain stupid > compared to the iPod. For some reason, nobody has. > > > > That said, if the way iTunes tells what type of device it's talking to is > such that Palm can fool it, and if Apple doesn't like that, they should > change the way it identifies what it's talking to. > > > > I'm torn on the Pre. On the one hand, using iTunes makes things simple. On > the other hand, iTunes has never been a terribly good Windows application, > and the way it maintains files on the mobile device is nothing short of > bizarre. > > > > Fun to watch, this! > > > > Cheers, > > Don > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Craig > Froehle > Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 7:40 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Treo] Palm Ignores USB Group's Warning, Restores iTunes Sync > > I think this is Palm's way of forcing Apple's iTunes monopoly to come > under even more scrutiny, perhaps at the federal level, than it has > here in the US so far. Picking on the little guy, even if he's not > totally in the right, is a quick way to get some Congresscritter to > hold a hearing. > > On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Joel S <[email protected] > <mailto:joel%401src.com> > wrote: >> > http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20091003/palms-webos-1-2-1-restores-itune > s-sync/ > > -- > CRA1G on Twitter > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- CRA1G on Twitter
