Chewing through the restraints...

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• It's iPhone after all — but will it trump iPod?

  Tue Jan 9, 2007
  • I'll be interested in seeing the SKD documentation if it is intended that 3rd party developers can develop apps or widgetd for the phone. That, and whether the OS X it's running on is really a 'pocket BSD' implementation, or closer to a 'OS X mobile edition'.

• Poll: Podcasts, Netcasts, or Webcasts? Let's Decide, Folks.

  Tue Dec 12, 2006
  • In general usage, I suspect most would associate the term podcast with a digital recording made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player. Some would inaccurately associate it with consumption on an iPod simply because of the iPod's ubiquity.

• Proposal: iTunes Pro

  Sun Nov 12, 2006
  • Nick, Lest any of my prior comments be misunderstood, I don't disagree with what you're suggesting as an upgrade road map for Apple. But the one thing you can bank on is the continued exertion of control by Steve Jobs on the end-to-end iPod - iTunes - iTunes store experience.

• Proposal: iTunes Pro

  Sun Nov 12, 2006
  • Chris, If memory serves, in the Windows platform the audio codecs currently supported by the iPod are implemented within Quicktime, an iTunes prerequisite.

• Proposal: iTunes Pro

  Sun Nov 12, 2006
  • My take: Apple's success to date with the iPod is based largely on a no-frills, consistent user experience with the goal of avoiding user base fragmentation.

• New Mac "Virus": Threat to Macs or Mac Owners?

  Fri Nov 3, 2006
  • Symantec's report on this 'virus' contains little in the way of detail. Nothing on infection vector(s) or methodology, or removal (other than via scanning and removal with their product). Nothing yet appears on CERT regarding this PoC.

• Achtung, baby! Why DRM might kill your music collection

  Thu Oct 5, 2006
  • Sure, that would work, as long as you were satisfied with the resultant additional loss in sound quality that could result from a second pass through a lossy encoder.

• Achtung, baby! Why DRM might kill your music collection

  Thu Oct 5, 2006
  • There's an obvious solution for such obsolescence. And it has the interesting side effect of creating an interesting opportunity for the content providers who wish to reap the financial benefits of today's DRM-laden download market.

• Zune Priced to Match iPod, Use Microsoft Points

  Thu Sep 28, 2006
  • Microsoft 'points' - great... With values that vary between countries...of course.