'Why I don't believe Steve Jobs'

Interesting article over on the BBC News site

LINK

"For a company with a tiny share of the computer market and an increasingly perilous first mover advantage selling portable music players Apple punches well above its weight in coverage of its every move."

iThink the BBC helps over advertise Apple sometimes too

Love the last line:

"Bill Thompson is an independent jounalist and regular commentator on the BBC World Service programme Digital Planet. He is a Mac user, but he is so unhappy that people might identify him with Robert Webb's character that he might finally make the jump to Linux"

I don't believe in the villanazation of Microsoft. Microsoft primary concern with DRM is creating a market that the music industry and the fans could see as fair. We can argue till the cow comes home about execution. I think the fact that there is an industry built up around both platforms (DRM and Apple) both sides can easily say they were successful and the market has benifited.

For the first time we have  all you can eat subscription formats that would not exist without IPODs and DRM. For that I think we should be thankful. Really it is just a break even game: Do you spend more than X on music per year? If so _fill in subscription service here_ makes sense. The something for nothing all you can eat uncontrolled model will never work. The big question this article raises thats the lynch pin of trust is how do we flexibly tell if consumer x has bought rights to listen to x.

No to DRM, I can buy a CD in the shops and copy it as much as I want, but that’s wrong. Surly education is the best defence.

Educate children as to why copying music casually from friends is just as bad as stealing the CD from the shop.

odujosh wrote:

I don't believe in the villanazation of Microsoft. Microsoft primary concern with DRM is creating a market that the music industry and the fans could see as fair. We can argue till the cow comes home about execution. I think the fact that there is an industry built up around both platforms (DRM and Apple) both sides can easily say they were successful and the market has benifited.

For the first time we have  all you can eat subscription formats that would not exist without IPODs and DRM. For that I think we should be thankful. Really it is just a break even game: Do you spend more than X on music per year? If so _fill in subscription service here_ makes sense. The something for nothing all you can eat uncontrolled model will never work. The big question this article raises thats the lynch pin of trust is how do we flexibly tell if consumer x has bought rights to listen to x.

Long Live Ubuntu !!!!!!!