Comments on: Apple and its C.R.A.P.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 11 May 2006 03:41:50 +0000

I dont get it.. I am using ITunes and its strore and I am very satisfied. When I go to a Store and buy a CD, I get a CD which I can copy/rip/whatever, unless it is copy protected (what most of them are).
When I buy an Album on the ITMS I can make 5 CD’s of them, each plain redbook audio without any copyprotection. Sure, AAC only plays on ITunes and the IPod, but its just too easy to make a normal CD of an album in ITunes.
Insert CDR, click ‘burn’ thats it.
I Agree, its a bit more work if I want mp3’s of them because it means I have to rip my just burned CD again, but besides that theres no technical Barrier to do so - I can even do that within ITunes. Its a DRM with build-in workarounds!
Its just a bit more Work.
Compare that to Sonys rootkit or to those “listen as long as you pay” services that are out there. In my oppinion “Fair play” is quite fair, click ‘burn’ and voila you are back in the good old nineties : no copyprotection, no hassel.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:32:51 +0000

if you can’t use any other language besides cursing, then why even bother opening your yapper? stuff your keyboard in a potato sack and go milk the cows, farmer John.
the author has some valid points, so don’t freak out here,
secondly p2p software is illegal, einstein, here we’re talking about legal ways to get the music, so chill out there too monkey boy.
and not allowing other companies (such as toshiba and sony and samsung - notice, no micro$**t listed) is business? so was hitler’s idea to exterminate the jews, hey maybe we should bring that one back too? the only thing i agree with u is that microsoft is crap, but i bet u’re using their crap right now to read this, so don’t even bother playing a political hero junkface

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 05:25:52 +0000

Apple being biased? Nah that couldn’t be right.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 05:24:42 +0000

LOL i’m shaking in my boots!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:21:17 +0000

“Coffee shops could do the same hosting DJ nights from patron laptops (instead of portable MP3 players) through the store’s sound system.”

Hope those coffe shops have a BMI or ASCAP license…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:18:37 +0000

Don’t have time to read ALL this claptrap, but it’s pretty funny that you use a link from Apple to defend how good an Apple product is. Gee, they wouldn’t be biased, would they?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:08:02 +0000

some people just have an overdeveloped sense of taste, style plus are good with investments. apple plays well to those people, where as whitetrash as yourself fancies junky equipment, poor quality and not skilled with money matters. Apple gives you the most “value” long term. any product they makes works better than 99% of competing products, plus you get back far more $ than average products on resale. It’s why the “smart money” buys apple, which you clearly haven’t evolved far enough to understand this quite yet. Someday you’ll grow up and will only buy Apple products, but until then, you will not understand the higher order of products that can be purchased.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:00:13 +0000

your ip has been tracked and sent to the riaa, you are a theif, nothing more.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:14:06 +0000

Jesus no wonder why Apple is so successful. Its customers are all sold on features and looks and are nothing more then a brick when told the truth.

Meanwhile I’m sure the latest P2PNET posting is sure to have you bashing there too. See you there bitch.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:11:10 +0000

When it comes to Quality, you’re just another victim of the Apple marketing moguls. Its a laugh that you say my audio equipment overlooks price, thats because it actually brings something for the price, something you’re missing out on. As if anything Apple doesn’t overlook price either for very little in return? I bet you’ll even say that those Apple cinema displays are far better then the top end models from Dell that cost a few hundred dollars less. BOSE is garbage and Apple is garbage, end of story. I guess just because your god Steve Jobs says hes an audiophile means that any piece of audio crap he throws at you must be audiophile quality as well. You’re just a dead giveaway anyhow, you can’t even get it straight about the difference between copying, fair use and stealing, but rather taking a line out of the RIAA propaganda books. Copyright Infringement is NOT stealing. You call me clueless? What are you, an RIAA lawyer?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:45:34 +0000

poor spike, forgot to look at the date on his link. 3 years old! AAC cleans MP3’s LAME clock at this point in the game. He also forgets about price when discussing BOSE and Apple’s HiFi Speakers, he compares it to JBL and NAD Amp setups which totally overlooks price. such a poor debater, give it a rest spike, all you know how to do is steal music, but when it comes to quality, you are clueless.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:36:19 +0000

There are a number of companies that are bad in my books.

Intel = Makers of the fucked up HDMI interface and HDCP protocol.
Sony = Rootkits and retarded sales tactics, (that caused them to lose out bigtime in the MP3 player market), and finally, Blu-Ray.
M$ = Thinks they can always continue selling cars with the hoods welded shut.
REAL = Who cares about REAL, I never hear anything about this company anymore.
Cisco = Making insecure products and trying to throw people in jail who disclose vulnerbilities, and them helping China out on something China cannot do alone.

I could go on and on.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:28:01 +0000

And another since this Apple zombie only reads his AAC info from Apple.com.

http://www.recordstorereview.com/misc/aacmp3part2.shtml
http://www.recordstorereview.com/misc/aacmp3.shtml

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:25:55 +0000

Another great comparison for the jackass…

http://www94.homepage.villanova.edu/william.entriken/encoding.pdf

This PDF compares the quality of various audio compression codecs run with various parameters. Overall, of all the audio encodings attempted which produced output at the same sample rate as the input, constant bitrate MP3’s produced the highest quality files, exceeded only by variable bitrate MP3’s at bitrates above 224kbps. In all cases AAC produced inferior quality results.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:09:43 +0000

Haha, BOSE? Anyone can beat BOSE, _ANYONE_! If you think any real true Audiophile’s use BOSE you gotta be fucking kidding me. Its a shame you never actually get to hear sound from JBL studio monitors and a NAD amplifer daily like I do. Maybe then you’ll discover the true meaning of music, instead of your overpriced, overcompressed, and overhyped CRAP. Let me tell you, AAC/MPEG-4 audio has been around since 1997, if it were that much better, we all would of found plenty of M4A’s in our life instead of MP3’s.

Read this link you jackass, get some real information instead of just pulling information out of your ass. Its pretty ironic that he uses Macs to do the testing too. Its a shame that all the ITMS files use AAC @ 128kbps.
http://www.xciv.org/~meta/audio-shootout/

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 12:59:27 +0000

As if I need porn, aside from you, the only pussy you’ll ever see in real life is a cat on 4 legs.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:14:34 +0000

“In other words, Apple is solely in charge of when and where music that’s purchased through IMS can be played back. It has also refused to license its CRAP to other hi-fi companies. For the last year, I’ve been arguing that much the same way Apple is using its CRAP to dominate digital music and video playback in the technology market, that it will soon start to nudge the traditional hi-fi manufacturers out of the hi-fi market.”

Really should get the facts straight. The above complaint applies only to playback on portable MP3 devices. iTunes has remarkable music sharing and playback ability. Any networked computer can play your tunes, and any iTunes equiped PC/Mac on a wireless network can play to any audio device with an Aux input via Airport Express. You should do this anyway to play iTunes or internet audio at home. Friends can come over and share tracks from their laptops on the living room stero or surround sound system–very sociable. Coffee shops could do the same hosting DJ nights from patron laptops (instead of portable MP3 players) through the store’s sound system. Clearly no danger to hi-fi manufacturers.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 09:56:08 +0000

poor spike, can’t catch a clue. apple’s iPod HiFi is the best bang you can get in the audio world right now, even Audiophile and PC Magazine are raving about the robust sound and point out that BOSE is now a 2nd rate player to Apple. looks like you have some reading to do!

http://www.apple.com/ipodhifi/

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 07:19:35 +0000

I feel saddened by the way Apple, M$ and Linux users seem to fight all over the place, it’s a schoolyard argument, just like politics. For example, when John Major (former Conservative leader in the UK) said “If you don’t think the Civil Service is the best in the world… …then you should!”. In this day and age, we should have learned that if we stick together, we can achieve anything. Regardless of race, colour, creed, or what damn OS we use. The fact of the matter is, we all support things that don’t do what we want them to do, yet we follow them because something is right in our own eyes. As soon as we drop this “my dick is much bigger than yours” routine, we will become much stronger against DRM/RIAA/MPAA and whatever else we think is absolutely un-needed, and frankly, coming to this site, we all should do. IMHO, Apple is good at one thing; spreading dissent amongst those of us (the public) that should be working with each other to stop such utter nonsense coming to the fore. Please think about what I’ve said, and continue this conversation without cheap shots at me, for I won’t reply to this again. THINK for a second, about where the real argument lies, it is not between those that think Apple is god, and those that don’t.

With thanks,

Personal OS user with generic WMA/Mp3 player (which sounds better than my stereo system)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 05:45:52 +0000

Actually, you don’t buy Windows. Come back to me when you know what the f*ck you’re talking about. You are only buying a liscence to use Windows on 1 machine that you own.