All this time you were crying about Apple unfairly locking its content to the ipod. Apple gets rid of DRM and doubles the sampling rate and you guys still complain. Go listen to your zunes and sansas.
jonbruck @ "Apple gets rid of DRM and doubles the sampling rate and you guys still complain."
I believe the issues are that:
1. Apple hasn't dropped any DRM, it's EMI that did the dropping. Apple in fact gets zero credit for this.
2. Apple didn't "get rid of it's DRM", it's still there on all the other labels. To make your statement factual Apple would have to tell all the labels they are now selling content without DRM, regardless of what they say.
3. The real thrust of the article is that we shouldn't have to pay extra for something that we should have had all along.
jonbruck: "All this time you were crying about Apple unfairly locking its content to the ipod. Apple gets rid of DRM and doubles the sampling rate and you guys still complain. Go listen to your zunes and sansas."
EXACTLY... who cares... there are way better players than iPod available anyways! (like the Zune and the Sansa) I am definitely not saying losing DRM is a bad thing ... I just agree that this benefits players like the Zune and Sansa more.
Soon people who were sucked into iPod ownership can branch out and try better (ie, innovative) products and not have to rebuild their library! They can still use iTunes!
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All this time you were crying about Apple unfairly locking its content to the ipod. Apple gets rid of DRM and doubles the sampling rate and you guys still complain. Go listen to your zunes and sansas.
jonbruck @ "Apple gets rid of DRM and doubles the sampling rate and you guys still complain."
I believe the issues are that:
1. Apple hasn't dropped any DRM, it's EMI that did the dropping. Apple in fact gets zero credit for this.
2. Apple didn't "get rid of it's DRM", it's still there on all the other labels. To make your statement factual Apple would have to tell all the labels they are now selling content without DRM, regardless of what they say.
3. The real thrust of the article is that we shouldn't have to pay extra for something that we should have had all along.
jonbruck: "All this time you were crying about Apple unfairly locking its content to the ipod. Apple gets rid of DRM and doubles the sampling rate and you guys still complain. Go listen to your zunes and sansas."
EXACTLY... who cares... there are way better players than iPod available anyways! (like the Zune and the Sansa) I am definitely not saying losing DRM is a bad thing ... I just agree that this benefits players like the Zune and Sansa more.
Soon people who were sucked into iPod ownership can branch out and try better (ie, innovative) products and not have to rebuild their library! They can still use iTunes!
This is a GREAT day for the consumer!
Apple didn't double the sampling rate, they doubled the bitrate.