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بما أنّ أنا غالبا أتمّ, حصل أنا أغنية ب التصق في رأسي صحيحة بما أنّ أنا كان حصلت يتأهّب لسرير هذا المساء - "صهرت" ب [بلوك] [برتي]. بما أنّ أنا كان حدّثت ي [إيبود] مجموعة مختلطة مهما كان, قرّر أنا أن يلتقط فوق فقط الأغنية من [إيتثنس], أبدا يبالي الألبوم, "نهاية أسبوع في المدينة." يفرقع على إلى ال [إيتس], حاول أنا أن يبدأ [دوونلوأد]. [أبّل] تلقّىني [لوغن] إلى [أبّليد] ي, أكّدت شراءي, بعد ذلك وقعت باتّجاه آخر على [ترم وف] جديدة خدمات (أيّ أنا لم أقرأ كلّيّا, غير أنّ سيصدم أنت كنت أن يعلم أنّ اللون موسيقى أكثر يقيّد من في أيّ وقت), [لوغن] ثانية, أكّدت شراءي ثانية, وفقط بعد ذلك أعلنت أنّ ال [كرديت كرد] على مبرد كان قد مضى, يسأل ل آخر [لوغن] أن يغيّر المعلومة. أنا أتمّت هكذا, وبعد ذلك ال [إيتثنس] قالني مخزن أنّ خطأ غير متوقّع.
أنا بعد ذلك ذهبت على إلى ال [أمزون] [مب3] مخزن, يدخل [لوغ-ين] ي مرّة ويحصل الكاملة كتلة حزب ألبوم مع واحدة طقطقة. كان الألبوم ليس فحسب تماما [درم-فر], هو كان $3 أقلّ من ال [إيتثنس] سعر, وهو جلب بشكل لا يصدّق سريعة, يصحّ داخل [إيتثنس]. وكان كلّ هو يكون مفقودة علاوة لون موسيقى فيديو أنّ أنا لا أهتمّ حول. هناك مشكلة جدّيّة مع الحاليّة [إيتثنس] مستعملة خبرة. [أبّل] سوفت لا يكون قدّمتني هكذا كثير فرص أن يتوقّف صفقاتي. هو طريق جيّدة أن يخسر عمل, بما أنّ هو أتمّ هذا المساء. خطت ال [ترم وف سرفيس] حاليّة إلى شركات فائقة, لا مراوح فائقة. أنا قد قلت هو قبل, غير أنّ يصدق أنا حقّا هو الآن: ما لم أغنية أنت يكون تفتّش يكون [إيتثنس-ونلي], يشتري هو من [أمزون]. أنت يستطيع استعملت هو على أيّ أداة, وهو تماما ملحومة مع [أبّل] نظام بيئيّ, أيضا. أنا سأكون جدّا فضوليّة أن يرى عمليّة بيع أرقام بما أنّ [أمزون] مكتبة يحصل كبير [أفر تيم]…
فكّر واحدة أخرى: [أبّل] تخطيط أن يحمّل ل أكثر أو كلّ [إيفون] تطبيقات من خلال ال [سدك]? إن [لجت] [فريور] يكون ابتعدت من ال [إيفون] لأنّ [أبّل] يرى الفرصة أن يجعل كثير مال, يتلقّى هم رسميّا يترك العمل جديدة راضي حصلت في الطريق من عظيمة برمجيّة وجهاز خبرات. أصابع يعبر, [إه]?
يكتب ببيت [مورتنسن] فوق مارس - آذار [6ث], 2008 مع ما من تعليقات.
قرأت كثير مواد فوق iTunes.
UPDATE: Guys, chill out. This problem wasn’t about my credit card or my ignorance of iTunes One Click. My problem was that the software didn’t notice the credit card issue until after I had entered my password three times. And, when I went to fix that problem, the store crashed.
And I say again: $13 on iTunes and $9 on Amazon. What possible incentive do I have to stand by iTunes? Amazon has no DRM, plays on all the devices I own and doesn’t demand that I agree to new terms of service every time I update its software. Apple is officially selling an inferior product at a higher price, and I’m not OK with that.
ORIGINAL POST: As I often do, I got a song stuck in my head just as I was getting ready for bed tonight - “Flux” by Bloc Party. Since I was updating my iPod shuffle anyway, I decided to pick up just the song from iTunes, never mind the album, “A Weekend in the City.” Popping over to the iTS, I tried to initiate a download. Apple had me log in to my AppleID, confirm my purchase, then sign off on new terms of services (which I didn’t read all the way through, but you’ll be shocked to learn that the music is more constrained than ever), log in again, confirm my purchase again, and only then announce that the credit card on file had expired, asking for another log in to change the information. I did so, and then the iTunes Store told me that an unexpected error.
I then went over to the Amazon MP3 store, entered my log-in once and got the whole Bloc Party album with one click. The album was not only totally DRM-free, it was $4 less than the iTunes price, and it downloaded incredibly fast, right into iTunes. And all it’s missing was a bonus music video that I don’t care about. There is a serious problem with the current iTunes user experience. Apple shouldn’t be offering me so many opportunities to stop my transactions. It’s a good way to lose business, as it did tonight. The current terms of service are tailored to record companies, not record fans. I’ve said it before, but I really believe it now: unless a song you’re looking for is iTunes-only, buy it from Amazon. You can use it on any device, and it’s totally seamless with Apple’s ecosystem, too. I’ll be very curious to see sales figures as Amazon’s library gets bigger over time…
One last thought: Is Apple planning to charge for most or all iPhone applications through the SDK? If legit freeware is kept off of the iPhone because Apple sees the opportunity to make more money, they’ve officially let the new content business get in the way of great software and hardware experiences. Fingers crossed, eh?
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Written by Pete Mortensen on March 6th, 2008 with no comments.
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Apple’s iTunes music store has overtaken Best Buy to become the number-two music retailer in the U.S. behind Wal-Mart, according to market researcher NPD Group.
Apple’s growth is likely to continue. Sales of CDs are plummeting while digital downloads grew about 50 percent last year, NPD said.
Most tellingly, nearly 50 percent of U.S. teens didn’t buy any CDs during the year, NPD says.
“Teens are continuing to check out on the CD,” NPD analyst Russ Crupnick told the Associated Press .
Written by Leander Kahney on February 27th, 2008 with no comments.
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DVDJon has broken Apple’s FairPlay DRM scheme, but the current implementation leaves a little bit to be desired, as new contributor fitterhappier notes in his comprehensive survey of the project.
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Written by Pete Mortensen on February 26th, 2008 with no comments.
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Mythical beast, adrenaline junkie and sometime digital revolutionary Jon Lech Johansen has fired the latest volley in the DRM wars, launching doubleTwist, software promising to make restrictions on purchased digital media a thing of the past. A grizzled veteran of the campaign against DRM, “DVD Jon” has been handing media companies defeat after defeat, nonchalantly toppling flimsy restriction schemes from DVD copy-protection to Windows Media to FairPlay, the encryption scheme “protecting” most purchases from Apple’s iTunes.
It’s not a great stretch to suggest that Johansen’s work has proved to the corporate world that DRM doesn’t work. Tech news outlets received the news of Jon’s calmly, reporting on the announcement with typical restraint and critical analysis. Oh my dear lord, no, they certainly did no such thing. DVD JON CREATES DRM KILLER, Slashdot reported. (”What, again?” responded thousands of readers the world over.) The truth is that doubleTwist is less a direct assault on DRM, like the Pickett’s Charge of Johansen’s PlayFair endeavor, than a preview of a DRM-free world. Bought your favorite album from iTunes and can’t wait to play it on your flavor of the month mobile phone? doubleTwist, it seems, can make it happen. Make the jump to read how. (more…)
Written by fitterhappier on February 26th, 2008 with no comments.
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