Apple’s $1.8 billion iTunes tax

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re: Apple’s $1.8 billion iTunes tax

dittobait — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:06:08 GMT

@aemarques

"why will WMA exist in he future? Why should hardware makers pay for a license?" Well, you forget that companies also pay a license to use MP3! MP3 is not an opensource format!"

Yes, I know this..but why pay for an extra license on a proprietary format? It's an extra expense that is not necessary.

re: Apple’s $1.8 billion iTunes tax

chuckb84 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:36:03 GMT

"This is the day Thurrott came to equal Dvorak."

No, Enderle.

re: Apple’s $1.8 billion iTunes tax

mikegalos@msn.com — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:11:07 GMT

lotsa

There was a question in there somewhere?

re: Apple’s $1.8 billion iTunes tax

lotsamystuff — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:59:42 GMT

"mikegalos": Are you going to address my question?

re: Apple’s $1.8 billion iTunes tax

Ocean — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:28:54 GMT

LC21: Great post.

re: Apple’s $1.8 billion iTunes tax

LC21 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:47:59 GMT

Mikegaolos,

Take a break, man. Put on "Tonight" by Oscar Peterson, crank up the volume, and perhaps your reflexive Apple and Mac user bashing will be converted into a more live and let live approach. Same is true for Mac zealots.

Understanding how important MS is, I used to go here for updates; now its Bott and Foley. Enough of the frat boy debate already.

re: Apple’s $1.8 billion iTunes tax

chuckb84 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:01:32 GMT

"I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Amassing a collection of iTunes-bought Protected AAC tracks is like failing an intelligence test. "

And, I've said it before and I'll say it again: Listening to Paul on any topic involving Apple is not LIKE failing an intelligence test, it IS failure of an intelligence test. Paul does intelligent technical commentary---some of the best on the web---but then just goes off the rails on Apple. Meds need adjustment?

Given how heated the discussion has become here at times, and as a sort of public service announcement :), I jut got this in my email, the famous $409 laptop:

"It's the brand new 15.4" widescreen HP notebook with 1GB of DDR2 Memory, 120GB Hard Drive, DVD Burner with HP's Lightscribe Technology, a Webcam and much

www.tigerdirect.com/.../item-details.asp

To my eyeballs, it's not too ugly as Windows laptops go, but will surely need more than 1 Gig of RAM? It would amuse me to have more than one poster bragging about a $409 laptop. I wonder if it can be induced to run OS X?

End of public service announcement

re: Apple’s $1.8 billion iTunes tax

DavidR91 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:39:30 GMT

I must however highlight irony in the grammar mistake of my previous post

re: Apple’s $1.8 billion iTunes tax

DavidR91 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:45:59 GMT

"Amassing a collection of iTunes-bought Protected AAC tracks is like failing an intelligence test"

Running Windows on a server is also akin the failing an intelligence test

re: Apple’s $1.8 billion iTunes tax

aemarques — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:52:15 GMT

@dittobait: "why will WMA exist in he future? Why should hardware makers pay for a license?" Well, you forget that companies also pay a license to use MP3! MP3 is not an opensource format!

re: Apple’s $1.8 billion iTunes tax

yert — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:47:54 GMT

@robertsjoe - Did it ever occur to you that if Paul Thurrott was a Microsoft employee paid by Microsoft what to say he would be deleting your crazy conspiracy theories? Or maybe you think that just because he uses Windows he is too stupid to know how to moderate a threat? I've seen your types (people who make software choice a religion), and I wouldn't be surprised at this crackpot thinking.

re: Apple’s $1.8 billion iTunes tax

aemarques — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:41:47 GMT

DRM solution:

1. Take your DRM protected tunes

2. Burn an audio CD with them

3. RIp your audio CD to your MP3 of choice (or even WMA!)

4. Done.

re: Apple’s $1.8 billion iTunes tax

Mum — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:32:58 GMT

"I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Amassing a collection of iTunes-bought Protected AAC tracks is like failing an intelligence test."

There's so many things you could say that about, but saying it about the most popular music store on earth is both arrogant and elitist, and even surpasses claiming that Windows/Mac users in general are idiots. Add to that your ignorant comments about audio file format sound quality in the past - ho hum.

re: Apple’s $1.8 billion iTunes tax

mikegalos@msn.com — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:51:51 GMT

"Exactly. Log files with username, IP, even mac address if proper logging is turned on. I also agree, if its even true, that its a pathetic, cowardly move. "

It is true (and you're a bit of a bozo to assume otherwise).

He was logged and reported to appropriate people. And I suspect the his parents will take away his Internet time for a week and make him eat his broccoli.