Posted by Laurence Payne on 12/21/07 11:20

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:22:01 -0800, "Richard Crowley"
<rcrowley@xp7rt.net> wrote:

>OTOH, I know of no more counter-intuitive and USER-
>VICIOUS application than iTunes. I've lost track of the
>number of iPods I've recovered for people when iTunes
>suddenly decided to remove all their content. Various
>fruit people have claimed that it is possible to turn off
>this objectionable behavior, but none have ever explained
>exactly how to do it. (Nor have they adequately explained
>why it is set up that way by default.)

I know a number of people who have been caught by iTunes wiping their
library when "synchronise" didn't do what they expected. Any
criticism of Microsoft over DRM has to be doubly aimed at Apple. I
stand by my advice, if you want a MP3 player choose ANYTHING but an
iPod.

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