Steve Jobs, the iPad, and cultural sugar water
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From: Larry on 12 Jul 2010 01:00 Mike Hofman <info(a)recreate68.org> wrote in news:4c3a18e2$0$87077$815e3792 @news.qwest.net: > But Apple isn't behind DRM, they are 100% against it, you are talking > about the content providers so your argument is misdirected. > > Apple doesn't "limit" anything, again you are are angry at "content > providers", not Apple, so update your stance. > > Reality Distortion Bullshit....... NO manufacturer is REQUIRED to knuckle under to the DRM nonsense from RIAA. Case in point! http://www.sandisk.com/products/sansa-music-and-video-players/sandisk- sansa-fuze You copy any files you want to its internal memory or external memory cards and it plays it! Big deal.... Noone HAS to put up with this iTunes-only-loading bullshit! -- Just bought a new Smart car - Silver n Black.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obn9TJ6Xtc8 Larry
From: Larry on 12 Jul 2010 01:06 Peter Bruells <usernet(a)rogue.de> wrote in news:m2lj9h28n8.fsf(a)rogue.de: > With iPods yes, at least last time it did it. But they don't make it > easy. Basically, you need to access an "invsible" directory and you'll > find strangely named files, which will contain the original MP3 file > header information. > > It's obfuscating enough to render the iPod meanengless as a music > transport device. > > It doesn't have to be this way.... http://www.sandisk.com/products/sansa-music-and-video-players/sandisk- sansa-fuze Copy ANY files on and off with ANY file manager to a REAL USB Flash Drive FAT32 file structure on both internal and microSD card memories. Put your music on any SanDisk player, then copy or move it off your player to your girlfriends USB port WITHOUT INSTALLING ANYTHING! Boot her Windows Explorer and you'll see BOTH flash memories as DISK DRIVES on any OS that supports FAT32, which is all of them! You don't HAVE to put up with this iTunes/Apple restrictive bullshit! And these great little players are MUCH CHEAPER!!!! -- Just bought a new Smart car - Silver n Black.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obn9TJ6Xtc8 Larry
From: Larry on 12 Jul 2010 01:09 Oxford <apony(a)pasture.com> wrote in news:apony-AFFB57.12572711072010(a)n003- 000-000-000.static.ge.com: > but the ipad supports all free media types, it's not limited to music. > > BULLSHIT! No DivX, No Xvid, No OGG, No FLAC, No Windows Media, No Flash.....do we have to go through the entire LONG list of what it WON'T support? Every iPhoner KNOWS what it won't play....Why do you persist spreading this lie? Man, keep spreading this Koolaid bullshit. iPad hardly plays ANYTHING! -- Just bought a new Smart car - Silver n Black.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obn9TJ6Xtc8 Larry
From: BreadWithSpam on 12 Jul 2010 01:17 Larry <noone(a)home.com> writes: > Copy ANY files on and off with ANY file manager to a REAL USB Flash Drive > FAT32 file structure on both internal and microSD card memories. Put your > music on any SanDisk player, then copy or move it off your player to your > girlfriends USB port WITHOUT INSTALLING ANYTHING! A hierarchichal filesystem is a crappy way to organize music. iTunes lets you organize it by playist, genre, artist, album, etc. -- And let's you copy and organize the copying and managing of same on your iOS device using the same tools. I've had filesystem-based navigation systems on MP3 players before - in fact one of them actually was a Sandisk one (such as you seem so much to love). It stank. When I replaced it with an iPod Nano, organizing and managing my music (and, actually, much more imporantly to me - audiobooks and podcasts) got vastly vastly easier. > Boot her Windows > Explorer and you'll see BOTH flash memories as DISK DRIVES on any OS that > supports FAT32, which is all of them! You realize you're crossposting this to both the iPad newsgroup and the Mac Apps newsgroup. Windows is irrelevant and regarding the iPad, it's vastly more than simply a player for media files. Are you having fun? I hope so, 'cause I'd hate to think all that ranting (and all the ALL-CAPS) is anything more than you laughing at yourself and inviting us all to join in. > You don't HAVE to put up with this iTunes/Apple restrictive > bullshit! Why does it bother you so much that folks like Apple products, even with their sometimes quite annoying restrictions? (I, for one, really can't stand the fact that I cannot copy media to my iPhone from both of my computers. Yes, it's really really freaking annoying. But it's more than made up for by the fact that my iPhone sucks a whole lot less than any other smartphone I've owned or used.) If you hate Apple and Apple products, you might find your time more productively spent in newsgroups not devoted to those products. -- Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed.
From: Tom Stiller on 12 Jul 2010 07:30
In article <Xns9DB3B887F02noonehomecom(a)74.209.131.13>, Larry <noone(a)home.com> wrote: > Just bought a new Smart car - Silver n Black.... > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obn9TJ6Xtc8 Before <http://a.yfrog.com/img341/9007/image1zy.jpg> After <http://a.yfrog.com/img64/6347/imagedht.jpg> -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF |