Comments on: Verizon’s ‘dirty little secret’

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:27:13 +0000

I’ve been asking this question for years now. How long before we start seeing music playback devices (and software players) that EXCLUDE MP3 support? The manufacturers selling them will include some half assed “ripping” software so the sheeple can convert the CDs they own (that don’t have copy protection to prohibit it) to whatever DRM crippled format so they can dodge the claim that you can’t play the music you “legally own” (except for iTunes…). Since (so far) there is no practial way to include DRM in MP3 files “content providers” have always looked at them as a threat. If they can sell players that do not support your current music collection, THEY WILL. If you do not have the CD you will just have to buy the songs again. It will happen.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:10:39 +0000

“If the technology can’t do something…”

There is no reason in the world this phone does not include MP3 support apart from pure monopolistic greed. MP3 support in a device like this is a pure software issue. If it’s hardware can support WMA playback it has the ability to support MP3. Don’t confuse what this product WON’T do vs. what it CAN’T do.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:29:04 +0000

me thinks the idea is the ipod plays mp3’s; so apple has indeed avoided this …. for now, until they let someone else take the heat for it first. after that, hen it becomes standard practice, who knows.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 03:52:57 +0000

Duh!

I did “read the statement carefully” and it says exactly what the leaked memo says – no mp3 support.

My laptop doesn’t have a PS/2 socket, so I run my mouse through a USB adaptor. That doesn’t mean my laptop “has PS/2 support” – it means I have to use a dirty work-around to get the functionality I want.

Unfortunatly for tech companies, there is only so mch spin you can put on something. If the technology can’t do something, no amount of saying it can will help.