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Sort of like how you can't do squat with music/movies on iOS unless it's through iTunes?

by ryandvm 16y ago

protomyth 16y ago
Pandora and Rhapsody seem to work just fine. Audible seems to have a nice app for all those audiobooks. Netflix also seems to work fine.
- alxp 16y ago
  Apple certainly could have made it easier to put any old video you want into iTunes, I think they made a strategic decision to coax people into purchasing video through iTunes by making it hard to just drop AVIs into it. If they had tried this with iTunes - come out with the music store before the player and limited you to only listening to music you bought through the store, they'd have been dead in the water. I'm sure they're more than happy with the sales of videos in iTunes but they certainly left a pretty wide hole where iTunes could have been the default video player for everything instead of just their own stuff.
  - tptacek 16y ago
    The version of the iTunes Music Store where people can put whatever media they want up for sale sounds, to me, as a consumer, less valuable than the single place I can go now to get almost any album on any label I normally listen to, or get the most recent episode of Parks & Rec. I'm sure there's great stuff on sale at flea markets too, but I don't want to shop there. Sorry.
    - true_religion 16y ago
      > The version of the iTunes Music Store where people can put whatever media they want up for sale sounds The op doesn't mean that iTunes would be used for selling media. Rather it'd be your personal media player for everything like AVI/Mpeg/etc. like VLC is. I don't know how well iTunes can do this as is, but that's what he's arguing for.
      - tptacek 16y ago
        You're obviously right. Sorry for misreading.
itg 16y ago
Not sure what your are trying to say or if you even use an iOS product. You can easily play music/movies not purchased through iTunes and there is other software out there that allows people to manage music/movies if they don't want to use iTunes. So no, it's really not the same thing at all.
iujyhgftrgh 16y ago
Not quite the same though - Apple setup iTunes to make it easier for iPod owners to use their product - and making Apple some money in the process. They didn't decide to limit the iPod to 32Kb/s playback to protect sales of their CD players

Sort of like how you can't do squat with music/movies on iOS unless it's through iTunes?

by ryandvm 16y ago

Sort of like how you can't do squat with music/movies on iOS unless it's through iTunes?

Pandora and Rhapsody seem to work just fine. Audible seems to have a nice app for all those audiobooks. Netflix also seems to work fine.

alxp 16y ago
Apple certainly could have made it easier to put any old video you want into iTunes, I think they made a strategic decision to coax people into purchasing video through iTunes by making it hard to just drop AVIs into it. If they had tried this with iTunes - come out with the music store before the player and limited you to only listening to music you bought through the store, they'd have been dead in the water. I'm sure they're more than happy with the sales of videos in iTunes but they certainly left a pretty wide hole where iTunes could have been the default video player for everything instead of just their own stuff.
- tptacek 16y ago
  The version of the iTunes Music Store where people can put whatever media they want up for sale sounds, to me, as a consumer, less valuable than the single place I can go now to get almost any album on any label I normally listen to, or get the most recent episode of Parks & Rec. I'm sure there's great stuff on sale at flea markets too, but I don't want to shop there. Sorry.
  - true_religion 16y ago
    > The version of the iTunes Music Store where people can put whatever media they want up for sale sounds The op doesn't mean that iTunes would be used for selling media. Rather it'd be your personal media player for everything like AVI/Mpeg/etc. like VLC is. I don't know how well iTunes can do this as is, but that's what he's arguing for.
    - tptacek 16y ago
      You're obviously right. Sorry for misreading.

itg 16y ago

Not sure what your are trying to say or if you even use an iOS product. You can easily play music/movies not purchased through iTunes and there is other software out there that allows people to manage music/movies if they don't want to use iTunes. So no, it's really not the same thing at all.

iujyhgftrgh 16y ago

Not quite the same though - Apple setup iTunes to make it easier for iPod owners to use their product - and making Apple some money in the process. They didn't decide to limit the iPod to 32Kb/s playback to protect sales of their CD players