Steve Jobs, the iPad, and cultural sugar water
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From: Todd Allcock on 5 Jul 2010 02:03 At 04 Jul 2010 13:41:03 -0400 BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net wrote: > Apple played a huge role in convincing record companies to give up > on the DRM for music. Huh? The way I remember it was Amazon launched a completely DRM-free music store, and, after having a modicum of success with it, iTunes dropped DRM (actually sold both DRM and non-DRM, the latter at a $0.30 premium.)
From: nospam on 5 Jul 2010 02:26 In article <TReYn.6068$Zi.2870(a)newsfe14.iad>, Todd Allcock <elecconnec(a)AnoOspamL.com> wrote: > > Apple played a huge role in convincing record companies to give up > > on the DRM for music. > > Huh? The way I remember it was Amazon launched a completely DRM-free > music store, and, after having a modicum of success with it, iTunes > dropped DRM (actually sold both DRM and non-DRM, the latter at a $0.30 > premium.) apple said initially when they launched the itunes store that drm was a necessary evil. steve jobs wrote about his hope that drm would go away, and it did. amazon was able to launch a drm-free music store when the record companies were considering dropping it, while apple was still tied to existing contracts, so they could not be first.
From: Jochem Huhmann on 5 Jul 2010 09:32 Todd Allcock <elecconnec(a)AnoOspamL.com> writes: >> that's true. a computer is also needed for firmware updates, which for >> the ipad has not happened yet. >> >> otherwise, there is no *requirement* to have a computer in order to use >> an ipad, it just makes some things a lot easier. > > It's required for placing content on the iPad, otherwise you have to > purchase it through Apple*. Hmm, with iOS 4.0 you can now save books mailed to you as an attachment right to iBooks from within the Mail app. There's actually an API now which apps can use to announce the file types they accept, so that apps can send documents to each other. And you can use dropbox and other cloud services to get at documents. I agree that all the file management in iOS is an absurd mess as soon as you don't go through iTunes. But Apple is not trying to allow only stuff you bought from them on these devices or totally force you to go through iTunes. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Paul Murray on 5 Jul 2010 10:13 On 2010-07-05, Todd Allcock <elecconnec(a)AnoOspamL.com> wrote: > Which is it? To add any cotent I want, it becomes a slave to an iTunes- > enabled computer. If I don't sync it to a computer, I'm essentially > limited to purchasing content from Apple/iTunes. No, you aren't. You can transfer any files you want into GoodReader (for example) from FTP, WebDAV, http browsing, DropBox, etc... and then Open In... in any app that supports this. You can buy books from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Borders and many others.
From: Wes Groleau on 5 Jul 2010 10:38
On 07-05-2010 09:32, Jochem Huhmann wrote: > Hmm, with iOS 4.0 you can now save books mailed to you as an attachment > right to iBooks from within the Mail app. There's actually an API now Can that feature also save videos? Images? Documents for iWork? Project files for Audacity? (oh-oh, now I'm getting dangerous…) Applications? :-) -- Wes Groleau Small class size and its opponents http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/barrett?itemid=992 |