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Originally Posted by MarchHare
What has this move done to improve Apple's iTune's software or iPod/iPhone hardware support? Nothing. All it does it break a feature of a competitor's product. That's not being innovative, it's being anti-competitive.
Apple fanboys have blasted Microsoft in the past because they used their market dominance in one area (operating systems) to cripple their competitors in other areas (web browsers, Java virtual machines, etc.). What Apple has done here with iTunes is really no different. They're using their dominance in the digital music field to damage their competitors in the smart phone/portable media player field.
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I wasn't aware the beef was between Apple and MS. I could have sworn that stuff was all between Sun vs MS and Mozilla vs MS.
Regardless, I wasn't even a Mac user back then anyway. I only made the switch to Macs just under a year ago. Also, anyone who knows me knows that I was on MS's side with the whole ant-trust thing. I hated (and still do) Sun's implementation of thier JRE. I mush prefered having the MS Virtual Machine built into the OS. As for the browser issue... I have never once not been able to install a 3rd party web browser on a Windows machine, so I never really cared about Mozilla's beef.
Anyway, if people want to have a discussion with me, then have a discussion with me... not at me, on behalf of some previous experience with a bunch of other people who acted a certain way.
Because I'm so new to the Mac culture, and I was a Mac hater for so long, I do have the ability to discuss things with an open mind. I'm starting to think (based on all these jaded comments) that I'm one ofthe few who can still make that claim. I haven't been exposed to years of so-called "fanboyism" to the point where anyone who backs an Apple product is just a fanboy.
As for the actual topic, I still have yet to hear a valid reason why Palm should be entitled to use iTunes as its sync software, when everyone else out there makes their own. As for people using iTunes to buy thier music, there is nothing in the EULA that grants you the right to use iTunes to sync with third-party devices.
Lastly, what's wrong with using WinAmp to sync your DRM-free songs? It syncs quite fine, and is a much much much better media player than iTunes is.