what new phone?

asininity

Marty_J wrote: »

Well at that stage, the iPhone had some 30,000 apps available.

We're not arguing that point I'm just letting you know as before all I could find was 800.

That is an interesting article (and I like the codenames - who wouldn't want to run Cupcake on their phone?), and he does have a valid point that the iPhone OS is only designed to run on Apple hardware. But it just reflects a different way of doing business rather than an inherent flaw. Windows has a much larger market share than OS X for instance, yet proportionally Apple make a lot more profit than Microsoft. Having an enormous market share has never been Apple's primary goal; making piles of cash is.

I'll not get into the discussion about companies main goal being cash.

[/quote]Having your products installed on the widest range of devices is one way to make money (and it's a way with its own set of problems), but not the only way. [/quote]

No one said it was.

Fair enough, but I'm sure you understand the attraction of having an automatically updated playlist that has all my 5 star rated songs (or whatever) in it.

I can understand it and if I was interested in rating all my music I'd benefit from it, but I just play music. Mainly use rhythumbox.

There's no DRM in iTunes music anymore (in fact, Apple were instrumental in the push to remove DRM from music), and I can appreciate that iTunes' feature-set has grown over the years, but lots of them are very good.

I thought they offered DRM free music at a premium.

Marty_J

asininity wrote: »

I thought they offered DRM free music at a premium.

No, they don't offer any DRM'd music at all.

They did originally offer DRM free music at a higher bitrate for a slightly greater cost while they were transitioning, but it's all DRM free now.