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17 Mar 09

App Store: 25,000 apps, 800 million downloads » VentureBeat

  • At its iPhone 3.0 software preview event in Cupertino, Calif. today, Apple gave out some pretty huge statistics for the iPhone platform so far. The two big ones: There are now over 25,000 apps in the App Store, and those apps have been downloaded over 800 million times.
29 Sep 07

Gizmodo says Don't buy an iPhone | Technology | Guardian Unlimited

  • Everything about Steve Jobs's history and character says "it's my way or the highway." He demands absolute control. That hasn't worked very well in the computer industry but it's standard in the mobile phone business.



    Now Jobs has finally moved into an industry where control freakery is the norm, why would you expect him to give it up?
03 Apr 07

derStandard.at -EMI: \"Wir sind auf Apple zugegangen und nicht umgekehrt\"

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    Die Wahl von AAC sei aber ebenso eine Business-Entscheidung von Apple gewesen, wie die Erhöhung des Preises für dieses "Premium-Angebot", beides müssten andere Partner nicht wiederholen. Vor allem letzteres verblüfft einigermaßen, hatte sich Steve Jobs doch in den letzten Jahren regelmäßig öffentlich gegen die Wünsche der Musikindustrie den Preis für einzelne Songs zu erhöhen, verwehrt.

  • Damit das Ende dieses gerade in den Monaten vor dem Anti-DRM-Bekenntnis von Steve Jobs heftig unter Beschuss gekommenen "iTunes/iPod-Lock-In", auch wirklich Realität wird, braucht es natürlich noch neue Kooperationen. Denn die im iTunes schon bald zum Verkauf stehen sollenden Lieder sollen zwar DRM-frei sein, aber im von nur wenigen Playern unterstützten AAC-Format daherkommen.
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13 Feb 07

Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | I hate Macs

  • Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults

BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Why I don't believe Steve Jobs'

  • This ignores the fact that some of the music on the iTunes store is also available without FairPlay or indeed DRM of any sort from other, less restrictive, services like eMusic.


    It also ignores the reality that Microsoft's widely licensed system has been cracked the same number of times as Fairplay, so the evidence would seem to indicate that Jobs fears are not justified.

  • But Jobs can see which way the wind is blowing, and he can see that the record companies are finally tiring of their painful, expensive and ultimately unsatisfactory relationship with DRM.


    They have stopped trying to sell broken CDs that can't be ripped to disk, and as a result nearly all of the music that they so painstakingly control when sold over the net is available at higher quality and lower cost to anyone who cares to spend the time taking it.

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