[opendtv] Re: Nine ways Apple, Inc. just changed the landscape of consumer electronics

  • From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:59:05 -0800

You "own" music?  That's funny.  I suspect that you merely have a "license"
or "first-sale rights."  Unless you owned the source composition (sole
composer/songwriter) or it was in the public domain, and performed the
music, and recorded it yourself.  

The next time I see my relative, I'll ask him for the latest on his iPod
issues.  It's been a year since I heard his tale of woe.

The iPod/iPhone thing is still about disposable culture.  5 units means
about five years.

On this topic, Steve Jobs has learned from Alfred P. Sloane (the model year
change.)

John Willkie


> -----Original Message-----
> From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Craig Birkmaier
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 4:21 AM
> To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [opendtv] Re: Nine ways Apple, Inc. just changed the landscape of
> consumer electronics
> 
> At 10:49 AM -0800 1/13/07, John Willkie wrote:
> >You're a real laff riot.  iPhone redefined the smartphone category?
> There's
> >this little Chinese-only product that will do that.  It enables you to
> make
> >cell phone calls when no WiFi is available, but to use WiFi for VOIP when
> >you're within WiFi range.  A customer of mine has been using it for
> months.
> >It's not available in the U.S. yet; he paid almost as much for shipping
> as
> >the phone.
> 
> That's nice. There is nothing remarkable about the PHONE portion of
> the iPhone other than the user interface. It remains to be seen
> whether Apple/Cingular will block the use of VOIP calling via WiFi
> networks.
> 
> >
> >By the way, on this list within the last two years, I said what the IPod
> >needed was a cellphone built in.   Other manufacturers have offered such
> for
> >more than a year.
> 
> And Apple/Motorola have been selling one via Cingular for more than a
> year. It's an obvious feature for the computer in you pocket.
> 
> >
> >I'd put it that Apple gave iPod users the only real -- stretch -- reason
> to
> >upgrade again, and to pay once again for the music they already own.  Or,
> >did they somehow solve the issue that you can't move your FairPlay
> licensed
> >music content from one unit to another?
> 
> Again you are totally misinformed. Apple had ALWAYS given you the
> right to play the songs you have purchased from the iTunes store on
> five computers and any iPods that you sync to them. You do this by
> authorizing a computer to play your purchases through a very simple
> process at the iTunes store. If you have iTunes on you PC I could
> easily authorize it to play and make copies of my purchases, as
> currently I am only using two of my authorizations (my computer and
> my wife's). We load all of our purchased music on both of our iPods.
> You can also de-authorize a computer, so if you upgrade, you just
> move the authorization to a new computer.
> 
> Apple ALSO lets you share your music if you want to - even the
> protected content. I remember a presentation I saw at the Apple store
> in Soho. The presenter was talking about sharing music in her
> apartment building where they have a firewall and broadband in each
> apartment unit. When you connect to the network, if you choose to
> share all or part of your iTunes library, everyone behind the
> firewall can access your music and play it via iTunes on their
> computer - but they cannot copy protected music. The same sharing
> scheme applies for Apple TV and now the iPhone via WiFi.
> 
> 
> >I have a bass-ackwards relative who has three separate music libraries on
> >three iPods.  As much as he likes the product (having spent more than 2
> >grand on them) he has bought his last one, since the music libraries cost
> >more than the hardware.
> 
> Maybe its NOT your relative that has things bass-ackwards. There is
> no reason that he would have needed to buy any song more than once,
> and I suspect he knows this. Perhaps he now has the music he wants,
> and therefore has no need to buy more.
> 
> More to the point, the vast majority of music on my iPod and I
> suspect most others is music that I already owned. With iTunes it is
> very easy to import all of your CDs - an online database
> automatically loads the track names, and if you have ever purchased
> any music from the iTunes store it also loads the album artwork. This
> is important, because one of the user interface modes for iTunes uses
> the metaphor of browsing through a stack of albums. This carries over
> to the big screen interface for music browsing in Front Row (the
> software that lets you use a remote control to run media on your Mac
> or Apple TV. It also caries over to the way you browse videos, TV
> shows, podcasts, etc. And it now works via the multipoint touch
> screen interface on the iPhone, which will likely also be used on the
> next generation of iPods as well.
> 
> 
> >
> >Ever tried to 'repair' an iPod?  He's spent almost as much on 'repairs'
> as
> >hardware.
> 
> Yes, I replaced the battery in my Mini. It took about 10 minutes.
> 
> I have never had a hardware failure on either of our iPods, although
> I did need to dry out my unit when I got some water in the click

 
 
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