I'm still excited, and some people are still idiots.
(not you, jethroted)
Originally posted by jethroted
The article talks about how this is only on the mac platform, but that is not even just the missing market. The service is also only available in the States. Even if they just offered it through out the world it would mean huge $$$ for everyone. If this music could subsidize apple enough, we might even see the hardware fall in price in the future!!
Yeah, not just that, but also only mac users using OS X. How many Mac users with OS X are there in the US? And they probably don't have half the songs a lot of people are looking for (if that) which will be largeley amended between now and then.
This could be a major, major cash cow. I am so damn impressed.
These people have some nasty and ignorant things to say about the service:
Apple commanding 35c per song is outrageous, and will be savagely undercut in time... The musicians literally get a few cents!
I look forward to the day when we can just go to the musicians website via a simple search and download the track/s using the same technology for much much less than 99c per song...foregoing all the sucking middlemen like Apple and the Big 5 ...
Yes, and some day I will be able to make metal glass and wood fung shui-compatible furniture and distribute it nationally via a revolutionary freight delivery system developed by some multi-billion dollar trucking company so I can cut out those sucking middlemen in the furniture store business.
Same guy:
Isn't it ironic that the producers of music are going the other way with adoption of vastly higher quality 96k/24bit, yet all you people get suckered into raving about the'quality' of AAC
Has this guy listened to AAC? I now have 11 hours of music ripped and downloaded at 128Kbps, and they take up about the same space as
one audio CD, all while having virtual CD quality sound. And yes, I am an audiophile -- I own a $120 pair of headphones for no good reason but that I like the way they sound.
But wait -- I thought he was looking forward to the day when musicians themselves would use this technology? This kind of duplicity usually points to a predetermined starting point...hmm...
Still the same idiot:
A fool and his money are soon parted...Expect to pay much less in the future once competition cuts these leaches down to size!
Last time I checked, there was competition and it sucked. And you can definitely expect to pay much less for a Ford than a BMW now that Ford has cut those leaches at BMW down to size. Not that there's a difference between the two.
SOS, JADI:
I think Apple are exploiting the loyalty and curiousity of Mac users.
I'll bet that in 12 months time, this rip off will have changed through user choice and good old competition. Buyer beware.
Sounds like Steve Ballmer trying to spook people away from Linux

. Other services seem to have the same (or worse) pricing structure and less technology. Plus, what these last-minute-morons fail to understand, since they seem to know what they know about the service thanks to the headlines of the last two days, is that the Big 5 don't just give this **** away for anyone to distribute. Let the "competition" (HA!) develop technology that they are satisfied with, and then talk.
But let me get to the point. The naysayers all seem to be people who have not used the service. That's one.
And finally, I think this raises the specter of what I have not seen in a while, the bashing of Apple by people who simply resent the fact that they exist, and resent the fact that some people actually love their computer.
And as far as loyalty goes...I don't think anyone here isn't willing to call crap crap when they see it, even if it comes from Apple. The implication that we all follow Apple like sheep shows how very little the more ignorant of the PC community know about us.
Did I mention I pulled these quotes using my beautiful tabbed browser? SUCKAZ!