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Thursday, September 20. 2007

I don't keep it a secret that my grudge against Apple is somewhat personal; about a month after DAAP support was added into Amarok, iTunes 7 was released which dose not allow third-party applications to browse its DAAP server. That after I had worked hard to make Amarok function with the already discovered iTunes v4.5 DAAP hash. (iTunes 7's DAAP hash still hasn't been recreated, it probably doesn't help that the people who setup a site for to figure out the hash make a product obviously meant for piracy ARRGH! on campus networks.)

So its nice to see some growing awareness that Apple doesn't play nice, even in the somewhat mainstream media like BBC news. That gives a good overview of the case of "if Microsoft is a monolopy, then so is Apple." I really don't care whether the EU takes action against Apple. Hindering your customers in using your product is generally bad. You don't have to be a monolopy to do that.

On a somewhat related note, my last blog was 'breaking news' so it was neat to see it get picked up by Digg twice, Slashdot, Heise, Ars, and Boingboing.

Posted by Ian Monroe in eean at 00:53 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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If you buy shit, don't cry if it smells funny...

#1 elzoido on 2007-09-20 02:44 (Reply)

Make Amarok so good on MacOSX that every one stops using iTunes.

BTW Apple is greedy, even more than Microsoft.

#2 Anmol on 2007-09-20 15:49 (Reply)

I use Amarok on my Quad G5 Mac already thanks to Fink guys. You know the funny thing? Having more features,it uses LESS CPU and memory than iTunes.

It may have something to do with situation described here.

#2.1 Ilgaz on 2007-10-01 05:31 (Reply)

Ehehehe, monolopy.

#3 SheeEttin (Homepage) on 2007-09-22 21:26 (Reply)

While I think a lot of what Apple does is pretty sleazy, sleazy doesn't equal monopoly. It's like when conservatives call anyone whose politics they don't like a "communist." Some emotional impact, but when a word like that is used so flippantly, it becomes semantically null.

Being the biggest player in a market where most of the other players are inept doesn't make you a monopoly. I don't see Apple buying up all the little guys to enforce dominance. I don't see Apple strong arming other device makers into making them use iTunes DRM exclusively, or else. I'm not sure of the actual numbers, but Apple doesn't seem to have many exclusive labels, etc. So, if you don't want iTunes, don't use it. I don't see the iPod restricted to only one format, the content for which can only be had by purchasing from Apple.

I've an iPod Shuffle and I've not purchased one song from iTunes. I don't even need to use iTunes to put music on it.

Don't get me wrong, I'd like the iPod to play music from other stores, and other devices to be able to play music from iTunes, among other things.

Seems to me people are just looking for something to bitch about, at the decreasing actually improve Apple in these areas with a hand-waving sideshow.

#4 RevAaron on 2007-09-23 01:10 (Reply)

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