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Apr. 23rd, 2008 12:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
This article amply demonstrates why I will never, ever buy DRMed music. Microsoft is switching its authentication servers off. Which means that any music you bought from them is now stuck on the PCs they're authenticated on. Which means that when those machines die you lose that music.
Frankly, Fuck That.
In conversation with
cairmen yesterday, similar ideological reasons for my dislike of the iPhone came up. It's shiny, and it's neat to play with, but frankly it's not so much nicer than other phones that I'm willing to put up with Apple's ridiculous licensing agreements. I have a Nokia phone. Anyone can write software for it. I can install anything I damn well please. I shall be continuing to support manufacturers who produce hardware like this.
Frankly, Fuck That.
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Date: 2008-04-23 03:24 pm (UTC)How well does WinAmp handle videos, photos etc.?
My biggest problems with iTunes is how slowly it starts up and how slow it is to release the iPod when you hit eject.
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Date: 2008-04-23 12:10 pm (UTC)Nokia version of the iPhone
Date: 2008-04-23 12:55 pm (UTC)... just as a random guess, later this year ... :-) ... though don't expect a total clone ...
[EDIT: search for Nokia and Tube for some of the speculation ... and the rumours are early next year ... who knows?]
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Date: 2008-04-23 01:17 pm (UTC)Re: Nokia version of the iPhone
Date: 2008-04-23 01:27 pm (UTC)But I'm sure Nokia are throwing a ton of money at the Tube (and subsequent handsets) so if you don't get a Tube at first, then they are like buses, there'll be more along shortly :-)
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Date: 2008-04-23 01:40 pm (UTC)Now I just wish there was a firmer release date for the N96...
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Date: 2008-04-23 01:33 pm (UTC)I believe when Google closed the DRMed video store they had they gave everyone the option of having their money returned to them, which seems like a very reasonable way of shutting down any DRMed lock in venture.
I don't think Google are angels btw - I just think they handled it in a much better way, a way no one would ever expect Microsoft to handle things.
The iPhone SDK thing is odd. I don't really understand why Apple are not completely opening it up - I can only suspect that it is related to the phone networks somehow. It may be that their contract forbids the development of VOIP apps for it. They have stated that they will not approve any VOIP apps for the iPhone software store.
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Date: 2008-04-23 01:47 pm (UTC)You do have to despair of this kind of behaviour - I smell a class-action lawsuit on the horizon...
You could be right about the SDK - allowing Java would allow users to run almost anything on their phones, probably including VOIP.
Frankly, the sooner they stop trying to lock phones down the better...
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Date: 2008-04-23 01:51 pm (UTC)I doubt Microsoft sold very much music on their music store either. AFAIK the only real game in town is the iTunes Music Store (apart from allofmp3 type places).
The funny thing about the iPhone is that it's not in Apple's interests to restrict it at all really. Locking it to a network prevents them from selling so many phones for instance. They have to do it because of the deals with the networks - but then of course the networks are giving them heaps of cash (and apparently a share of the line rental fees), so you can understand why they're doing it.
I suspect Apple will play this game loosely for awhile until everything is totally broken and everyone wants a (now much cheaper) iPhone v2 or v3, then they'll fully open it up.
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Date: 2008-04-23 02:07 pm (UTC)And yeah - Apple wanted huge wodges of cash, so going exclusive was the obvious way forward, but that has hobbled them somewhat. I do hope they open up later on. Then I can do some proper research and decide if I want an iPhone (I'll wait to see if it gets a decent camera, GPS, 3G, proper bluetooth, etc.)
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Date: 2008-04-23 03:28 pm (UTC)It's perhaps broken for 'power' users.
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Date: 2008-04-23 04:26 pm (UTC)It also doesn't void your warranty.
Yeah, it would be nicer if it was official - but it's wrong to say it's 'broken' I think, for geeks at least.
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Date: 2008-04-23 06:02 pm (UTC)My phone is a Symbian Smartphone though. For exactly the same reasons as you. (Though I wish they had a version of OPL available)
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Date: 2008-04-23 11:14 pm (UTC)Then you place a JPEG into iMovies, import the .M4P as a soundtrack to the movie then save as AIFF. Reimport the AIFF into iTunes and convert to .M4A.
I'm sure it is possible to automate the process as I got this method from poking around in a (non-functional) piece of software designed to do that very thing.
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Date: 2008-04-23 11:29 pm (UTC)Can we say shooting yourself in the foot?