Apple’s enormously successful iPod/iPhone/iPad line have something in common with their iPod ancestors: you can’t even get started without a computer and iTunes.
This is given Apple a huge advantage, one that Apple’s competitors have failed to do anything about. And that advantage has nothing to do with songs, videos, apps or podcasts.
No, the real advantage of iTunes is that it ensures every iDevice user, first generation Nano
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Sadly, the latest actions by Apple push them from the control-fanatics state to Lawful-Evil. No way to argue it.
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What is a Middle-Finger-Flaw? A Middle-Finger-Flaw (MFF for short) is either a longtime bug or a missing feature, so egregiously possible to implement that every time your customers use your product, they are smacked in the face with the shovel of your dismissiveness.
To use your product is to be just slightly insulted. Every time.
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Today, the scary frozen water fell from the sky. As snowstorms went, it was pretty mild, but since the new 4-5 inches was dumped on top of the existing couple of inches from last weekend, I figured I should clear the driveway. Plus, they say 12″+ this weekend! Little did I know the newspaper industry was laying in wait to screw up my day.
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“The economics of the motion picture industry are based on exclusive release windows which allow price differentiation; that is, some earlier transactions take place at higher price points,” Freeman said.
The above is a quote from the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, which is a Cali business trade group.
The above is also stupid. You can’t legislate an unvalued business model forever.
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He might be right because he may not need the whole internet to see his news in order to make an online profit.
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