FYI, Apple's music store now works for PC. You can go to www.itunes.com and download the software. I know that many of you use Kazaa to download, but if you would like totally legal, purchaseable MP3s, this is one place where you can go.
Friends here at work are already listening to stations all over the world, and are happy with it. When your screen saver starts, the music pauses. When your PC is locked, the music pauses. SWooOOooeet! Nice, Andy
I'm glad that Apple is making headway into the PC market. Maybe people will start to realize how truly AWESOME Apple products are and that you don't have to settle for a Wintel machine.
The problem with Apple is that their stuff is expensive and you can't get as many video games for Apples as you can for PC. I like what Apple does, but I can't afford it or make use of it.
How about if Apple brings their prices down? I am sure I can buy cheap Windows software to run on an IMAC. I have to get me a G5. Those are sweet. POWERFUL. [grunt by Tim Allen]
You have to look at it like the car market. Apple is like BMW or Mercedes Benz. Higher quality, higher price.
Oh so you're saying Apples are like overpriced vehicles that have high cost-of-ownership and rarely are among the most reliable vehicles around and whose repair costs and insurance rates can be ridiculously high.
I know you are joking but the comparison is without merit. I'm saying you get what you pay for. People don't seem to realize that the computer market in America is like the car market in Russia. You can either have a POS Yugo like everybody else or you can have a Mercedes. In regards to quality, Apple's have the LOWEST out of the box failure rates of any computer maker. I have SEVERAL Apple's and have never had a hardware failure. Ever. I also have several PC's. All of them have had at least one failure, from the simplest cheapest to complete mother board failure. Why do you think Apple has such a strong brand loyalty? This wouldn't be the case if they were bad machines.
we got free ibooks from our school 2 years ago, and from my experiance with it, its a great easy product to use(also used the ipods) and i like the software for OSX, but Apple works is by far the worst word processor in the world
Every time I try to connect to the Music Store, I get the following error message: "We could not complete your Music Store request. There is not enough memory available. There was an error in the Musio Store. Please try again later." I think Apple is getting the hang of Windows. (No pun intended. At least not until I realized there was one.)
To be fair, OSX is built on top of UNIX, the most secure, scalable, reliable platform that exists. Mulder may be an Apple elitist (I don't know him well enough to say), but I am not. Just about all I have worked with or had in my house for my whole career has been PC. Again, to be fair, Apples do have a much lower out of the box reliability rating. Much of this results from the fact that there are millions of PC units sold by a wide variety of different manufacturers. Not all of those manufacturers have as stringent QC departments. The stats are that Apple is more reliable. I have had more PC hardware fail on me than I could shake a stick at (partly because that is what I deal with daily). I started just before you, my first was the Apple II. After that were the various TRS-80s and then I went to PC. There is some software that is only developed for PC, but as Apple moves toward UNIX (which it already is), there are millions of motivated UNIX developers that would love to take on MS. There are some things that PC does better right now, but there are some areas where Apple blows Wintel away. Itunes is a media player and MP3 download store where you can buy music for $1 per song in non-proprietary formats that can play on any MP3 player. To my knowledge, you do not need an iPod to take advantage of iTunes. The iPod is expensive because it has a TON of storage space.
Please Apple, share your god damn color scheme with Windows. That's all I ask. It makes it so freaking impossible to get the colors right on a web page.
Oh. but must agree. Ipod has been the best mp3 player I've ever had. No questions asked. It has never failed me once. Unlike every other crappy mp3 player on the market.
If I am not mistaken, the files downloaded from itunes can only be played via the itunes PC player, the IPOD itself or burned to CD. Once burned to CD, I assume they can then be saved as MP3 files (or WMA or whatever), but they cannot be directly transferred to an MP3 player from itunes itself.
The only thing you can download from iTunes is music in AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) format, and the only player that I know of that plays AAC is an iPod. In addition to that, Apple has created it's own digital rights management called "fair play," and I don't beleive they're licensing it to other manufacturers at this time. (Sound familiar in the context of talking about Apple? Seems like they may have done that before.) So even if you get a player that can handle the AAC format, it still won't be able to play songs from iTunes because they're copy protected. (Just like I have an MP3 player that will play WMA files, but it doesn't support WMA files with copy protection. So I'm out of luck with BuyMusic, the new MusicMatch service, and the soon to be released Napster 2.0. ) In short, it's iPod or nothing at this point with iTunes.
