Steve on LSD… er, I mean DRM
Simon 7th February 2007
Jobs has issued a statement, well, a few words, on the subject of Digital Rights Management in the music industry. The optimist would say that this is a bold move by Apple and that it makes sense to abolish DRM, given the format of CDs. The cynic would call hypocrite on a man who makes a living from lock-in software and maybe point out the money this would save for Apple in software development resources as well as business it would bring to the iTunes Store. Discuss.
The next sermon will be in June.
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1. Charles 10 February 2007 8:15 pm
To be frank, I have never seen the problem with DRM – it seems like alot of fuss over nothing.
On another matter, to answer your quick question. OSX Tiger did have 64bit support but this was at the application level only. Leopard goes to the next step by providing for 64bit all the way, including the OS and core frameworks such as graphics, sound and the like.
In short = very cool. Especially for a 64-convert like me
2. Sim 11 February 2007 4:43 pm
Well Charles, Frank never did see a problem with DRM. But I’d tell him that if I was going to buy 128kbps AAC audio files, I’d at least want to be able to transfer them to various devices and burn them as many times as possible. Who am I kidding? I prefer CDs.
I think Steve Jobs is using this essay to point out his philosophy, but also to make himself less of a bad guy in the music industry, and to make it so users can transfer their songs like their photos between their Mac and their Apple TV.
Btw, I went down to HT today and checked out Vista. Gotta say, I’m surprised that I was very impressed by the overall Aero interface, animated transistions, search, and start menu. As a graphic designer (I ♥ me) I can say that there are actually some original layout choices in the interface that will no doubt make their way into, or be improved in, Leopard. Though some things are still not quite as simple as on a Mac. The horrible Windows Help for one.
On the note of 64-bit, unlike Mac and Ubuntu, you can’t get a 64-bit version of Vista off-the-shelf, so to speak. You have to get it “via redemption” from MS. In other words, through the post.
I also had a lengthy discussion with one of the staff about Vista vs OS X, Bill vs Steve, BIOS vs EFI, the Cisco/iPhone thing, and basically the history of Sillicon Valley. This guy claimed he uses both a Mac and a Windows machine at home, and — after talking up Vista, Microsoft and the “smarter than Jobs” Bill Gates — he concluded that “[Vista] has just given me a Mac experience on my PC.”
There you go folks.
3. Charles Malpas 11 February 2007 10:11 pm
That is interesting that Vista are not fully supporting 64-bit. Interesting, but not surprising. 64-bit is used mainly by people doing high-load work, in my experience science/maths/compilling applications. Just the kind of people that wouldn’t buy a PC as most of this work tends to be done on a *nix system.
Also, knowing how MS produce operating systems – Vista will not be an entirely new build but rather an upscaled version based on XP (and previous…. god forbid). As Apple (Inc.) found out with Tiger – serious 64-bit users want a fully compatible OS, not a patch up job.
On another note, I have been running OpenBSD for some heavy stats stuff and it is one of the most stable OSs I have used… I wish it was talked about more. When was the last time you saw a nerd at a swap meet wearing a t-shirt with the BSD devil on it??
4. Charles Malpas 11 February 2007 10:15 pm
Note: When I talk about people who use 64-bit computing I mean people who (a) really consider their hardware and (b) people who actually know what 64-bit is. And no, it doesn’t mean that there are 64 peices in the box…
I am currently saving up for the 8-qbit CPU that I KNOW is just around the corner
5. Sim 11 February 2007 10:22 pm
Sorry, I should point out that Vista Ultimate does come with a 64-bit version in the box. But who has that sort of money?
As for the FreeBSD devil, I’ve never physically seen anyone wearing one of those shirts. And I can’t remember the last time I went to a swap meet. I’m far too good looking for that these days.
Don’t you think the old devil is so much cooler than that new thing.
And Charles, that last sentence you typed… I have no idea what it means.
6. Charles 12 February 2007 11:21 am
That last sentence was intended for uber geeks. Of course, I too am far too good looking to be one. Infact I don’t even know what a q-bit is… who am I kidding.
I don’t like the old bsd devil, he looks like he has been melted. I think somebody should make him web 2.0 compliant… now that would look… is samey a word????
7. Sim 15 February 2007 10:48 pm
Q-bit?
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