Comments on: sTunes versus iTunes

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:49:51 +0000

Dream on dude, this will never ever happen.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 03:08:05 +0000

Let’s see – Free illegal copies of music, video, etc. where the artists, designers, and developers, are essentially ripped off by p2p users and, earn nothing for their work. Versus inexpensive legal methods to download music, videos, etc. where artists, designers, and developers get paid for their work and are encouraged to produce more product. Hmmmm, that’s a tough one…but only if you don’t mind being a thief.

Are their compromises? Of course. There always are. In everything.

You can do what’s easy or what’s right. It has nothing to do with the record companies, the RIAA, the iPod, other MP3 manufacturers, or other digal media distributors.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:14:21 +0000

You know what? Samsung (Like Creative) should stick a finger up at Microsoft as well as at Apple and Just Say No To DRM.

Imagine for a moment that one of the big manufacturers of personal music/video players opened up and did all the things that the cartels wouldn’t like.
- USB drag and drop
- USB Host
- Format agnostic, Mp3, Ogg, AAC, WMA, WMV, etc etc etc.
- Open source the firmware and encourage hacking
- Open source plugins for winamp, mplayer etc etc
And crucially, promote AllOfMp3 or someone like it.

And then compete with Apple purely on function. More disk space, better screen, longer battery life, removable batteries, etc etc.