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Has the iTunes Store jumped the shark?

Has the iTunes Store jumped the shark?Poor quality and crippled with DRMSorry, your poll is sadly lacking. The big problems with the iTunes store are as follows:1) Poor quality recordings. 128 kb/s is not good enough.2) DRM = Death. Why buy a crippled product, particularly when a...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Sales strategy, Sales force management, itune, Apple iTunes, sales, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2006-12-12

Survey: iTunes, others to pick up slack in music sales

Survey: iTunes, others to pick up slack in music salesWell guess what ?Chicken butt . Do you want to know why ? Chicken Thigh ? Want to know the rest ? Chicken breast . Listen up yo , don't care what anybody sez , cause as far as anyone one...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, itune, survey, digital-rights management, Apple iTunes, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-03-27

Artists revolt against DRM

Artists revolt against DRMThe Artist Don't Want ItThe consumer don't want it either.So why is it there... simple some rat of a label executive wants to DRM everything.The DRM isn't really being used to quell piracy. Real pirates, the onese selling illegal CDs out the back of trucks,...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, First Sale, material object, iTune

Discussion threads 2005-12-15

Additional Resources

1st iPod to PC (exe)

iPod to PC Transfer is an ultimate application for transferring songs from an iPod to a Windows based PC. iPod to PC Transfer is a sound of blessing for frustrated Apple's iTune users who can't copy music files from iPod to pc desktop or laptop since iTune blocks iPod-to-computer song...

Tags: Apple iPod, PC, Coldrg, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-06-16

iPhone 3G announced for July 11th availability, but lots of questions remain

iPhone 3G announced for July 11th availability, but lots of questions remainUSA...ATT...no mas, jack.sighRE: iPhone 3G announced for July 11th availability, but lots of questions rAs long as the iphone stays on AT&T it will stay out of my pocketJobs again sells the old while pretending it is new[i]Wow, the...

Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, Harry Bardal, Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G, 3G

Discussion threads 2008-06-09

Microsoft delivers a first piece of 'Zune VideoX' via new Zune update

Microsoft delivers a first piece of 'Zune VideoX' via new Zune updateWOW!!!LOLZune what?Thought so.RE: Microsoft delivers a first piece of 'Zune VideoX' via new Zune updateThe Zune is really shaping up to be quite the little gadget. With this update its dramatically leaping forward. Good for Microsoft for...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, PRODUCTIVITY, Podcasts, Wi-Fi, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune

Discussion threads 2008-05-06

Is Apple good or evil?

Is Apple good or evil?Rotten to the Core nt.Who cares?The debate of "good vs evil" for companies is getting a bit tired. Since we did we start treating companies like superheroes? Every company has its good and bad points. Can we just leave it at that and quit talking like...

Tags: Apple Inc., Evil

Discussion threads 2008-03-27

Here's what fake HD video looks like

After this morning's piece "Don't believe the low bit-rate ‘HD' lie", I thought I would follow up and show you want crappy HD looks like.  The following is a sample from AVSForum user Xylon who digitally ripped some images from DIRECTV and Dish Networks satellite service 1.5 years ago.  Note...

Tags: MPEG-2, Video, DirecTV, Mbps, HD, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Corporate Communications, Digital Video, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-01-18

A tale of two statements: Apple and the EU on iTunes pricing

A tale of two statements: Apple and the EU on iTunes pricingJust out of curiosityWhat typos are you referring to? The paragraph was properly spelled from front to back. The only questionable point is the replacing of z's with s's which is a perfectly acceptable British spelling. Hell,...

Tags: Pricing, Digital media, Free trade, Sales force management, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, pricing strategy

Discussion threads 2008-01-09

News to know: iTune movie rentals, best and worst tech support, naked IT and more...

Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Coming soon: iTunes movie rentals A report in the Financial Times says that Apple and Twentieth Century Fox have reached a deal to provide movie rentals on the iTunes Store. Disney currently sells their full line of films on iTunes while Paramount,...

Tags: Information Technology, Movie, Apple iTunes, Movie Rental, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-27

Coming soon: iTunes movie rentals

Coming soon: iTunes movie rentalsFinal death knell for Block Buster...This has been coming for a long time. DVD rentals via mail is pretty nice, but nothing can compete with instant gratification. Kudos' to Apple and the genius of Steve Jobs. Apple these days always seems to be one step ahead...

Tags: Consumer electronics, Digital music, Digital media, solid state disk, Kudos, media content, Apple Inc., DVD, Apple iTunes, NetFlix Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-12-27

The BIG iPod touch review

The BIG iPod touch reviewIt is sadIt is sad that my 6 year old HP iPAQ is a better media player than a brand new iPod Touch. Codec support is [b]abysmal[/b] on the iPod but great on the 6 year old HP iPAQ. Yes, that [b]IS[/b] very sad!Now onto what...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Keyboards, old HP iPAQ, HP iPAQ, Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2007-11-23

Click'n View (exe)

Import, manage, view and print Digital Photo including various DSLR RAW formats. Gives motion to still image in 3D slideshow with iTune music. New active filter supports, inifinite undouable tonecurve, level adjust, and unsharpmask effect. Supports high speed duplicate finder to shrink your HD space. Includes Video Player, Graphic Converter,...

Tags: 3D, Slideshow, Music

Software downloads 2007-11-13

BillG sings blues over open standards, becoming obsolete

BillG sings blues over open standards, becoming obsoleteWell, there's one open standard[pre]ASCII[/pre]And unicode. Other than that, none come to mind...I wouldn't say thatM$ adopted the BSD TCP stack for their networking. That was an open standard.I say never[B]Winblad carefully avoided commenting on BillG’s reluctance to embrace open standards but hinted...

Tags: open standard, Microsoft Corp., Billg, sings blue, BillG sings blue, shorter list, standards

Discussion threads 2007-09-28

After Microsoft, Apple's next on the European Commission hit list

After Microsoft, Apple's next on the European Commission hit listWhat's the connection?I'm not sure it's a fair comparison, an operating system and software to interface with a specific device, in this case the iPod? Wasn't the problem with WMP that it was inexplicably built into the os itself and...

Tags: Operating systems, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Digital music, Digital media, Media players, European Commission, Apple Inc., operating system, Microsoft Corp., software

Discussion threads 2007-09-20

More winners and losers from Apple's iPod refresh

More winners and losers from Apple's iPod refreshSteve jobes got it right.Zune relally looks like a brick compared to iPod.Someday, Jobs will get the iPod rightWhere's the Bluetooth? Screw WiFi. I'm never around a WiFi hotspot. When I am, I have an actual computer with me and...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2007-09-07

Video: Steve Jobs at D5

Video: Steve Jobs at D5Ironically, it's iTune and Quicktime that is the crapware on WindowsiTunes is horrible crapware for Windows. Quicktime is riddled with zero-day vulnerabilities on Windows. Perhaps Walt should ask Jobs some hard questions like these.Terrible judgementDo you consider crapware an application with 1 million downloads...

Tags: Digital music, Operating systems, Digital media, Steve Jobs, Microsoft Windows, Apple iTunes, Apple QuickTime, video

Discussion threads 2007-06-28

Jobs does Windows with open source

Jobs does Windows with open sourceYeah, I just caught thatBut still, it would be more correct to say that the browser engine is open sourceand I believe has been for a long time. Dana said Safari itself was open source, which is a subtle, yet very important difference. Having Safari...

Tags: Alpha, job, Microsoft Windows, open source, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Apple Software, Open-Sourced Components

Discussion threads 2007-06-16

Apple criticized for embedding names, e-mails in songs

Apple criticized for embedding names, e-mails in songsApple is evil!http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/Message has been deleted.The problem with this methodis that it encourages identity theft. You don't want your name exposed, so you use someone else's name.Quit sensationalizing this!This does not even deserve to be treated like news. The people who are...

Tags: Identity theft, Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., music industry, e-mail

Discussion threads 2007-06-01

Jobs dismisses iTune subscription model

Jobs dismisses iTune subscription modelWhy?When we're just on the verge of getting rid of DRM for good, why introduce a new way of crippling music? Customers have shown they don't want to be handcuffed.I think Jobs understandsSeems Jobs understands the customer far better than the music industry.FYI for the...

Tags: music, job, subscription model

Discussion threads 2007-04-27