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I don't remember Apple licensing iPod to other manufacturers, and I don't remember Apple switching DRM formats and dropping support for the old one. As far as I
by raganwald 17y ago
I don't remember Apple licensing iPod to other manufacturers, and I don't remember Apple switching DRM formats and dropping support for the old one. As far as I know, when the iPad is released it will be able to play music purchased the very first day the iTunes Store opened, and it will be able to play music ripped by the very first version of iTunes when it was Mac only.
I see Microsoft as still compromising left right and centre, trying to get hardware manufacturers to play pricing Seppeku. The one thing they have in common with Apple is taking a technically reasonable product--Zune--and rebranding it with a more marketable product's name.
Aplle did this when they bought NeXT and rebranded it as mac OS X!
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoThis is getting weird and recursive. Are you saying Microsoft didn't abandon one business model and copy Apple's because in order for that to be copying Apple's business model Apple themselves would have to had a previous business model and abandoned it too? Apple didn't licence iPod to other manufactures. Microsoft did. Then it abandoned that approach and built the Zune in what was at the time a fairly major turnaround for them and instead copied the iPod model. I don't follow the Zune too closely, but it is still only built and sold directly by Microsoft isn't it? Just like the iPod, and unlike the previous devices in the PlaysForSure family. The whole point of that branding being that the music, bought from multiple stores, would play on multiple devices, made by different manufacturers (notably not including Apple).