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Posted by zoara on 10/17/21 11:48
On Wed, 24 May 2006 09:37:51 -0400, NRen2k5 wrote:
> Stephen Adams wrote:
>> Can you turn WMA/DRM'd music into unprotected music? And if so, at what
>> quality??
>
> Same story as with Apple's Fairplay-protected AAC, except that 98% of
> MP3 players out there will play the WMA-DRM's so you don't have to
> bother converting.
98%?
Oh, I see. When you say "98% of MP3 players" you mean "98% of the remaining
20% or so that aren't made by Apple".
>> In other words, you have to use Microsoft's OS. Apple lets you use
>> iTunes on ANY OS. Heck, it's even running on my work PC under Linux
>> (using Wine).
>
> Of course. Because locking iTunes to MacOS would be suicide. Nobody uses
> Mac.
Yeah. They're going out of business, you know.
>> MS wants to use their music to lock people into Windows. Apple doesn't
>> seem to care about which OS you use. Looks like more M$ lockin. As
>> usual. As you say, colour me surprised.
>
> M$ locking? No. It's a case of M$ not wasting money supporting a
> platform that nobody uses.
Except, of course, the few pennies they spend on Office. I heard that the
Office:Mac development is handled by one of the office cleaners in their
spare time, anyway. It's not worth wasting money on.
> Yes, Mac. Mac - which barely one in twenty people use.
Yeah, that adds up to, what, about a thousand people worldwide? Not worth
the effort.
> It's just not worth it. Apple ported iTunes to Windows
> because that's what probably 19 out of 20 iPod buyers use.
It was actually quite embarrassing how few iPods were sold until iTunes was
available on Windows. I think it was about a dozen.
-zoara-
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