Drawing conclusion from the actions of a single individual is not very good research, but draw your own conclusions from this little anecdote. My boss at work till very recently owned a Nokia N95 – despite all it’s gee whiz features, he primarily used it for two things – phone …
So, despite brave statements to the contrary, I’ve been forced to abandon my Creative Zen MP3 player and switch to an iPod. In my defence, I didn’t switch out of frustration with my Zen – I was forced to when it stopped working. A trip to the service center proved …
A final point on the post about Steve Jobs’s letter to the music industry. In episode 84 of TWiT, Hahn Choi points one important factor in Apple wanting to keep DRM (especially FairPlay) on the iTunes Music Store. DRM adds lock-in. As Hahn points out – Since FairPlay is not …
In last night’s daily link dump, I had added a link to Steve Jobs’s article wherein he calls on the music industry to give up on DRM. I applaud the sentiment,but had mentioned that I wasn’t comfortable with how the article dismissed the idea of making opening up FairPlay to …