iTunes to Windows

[Dephex Twin]

buymusic add

Originally posted by SiliconAddict
I thought you guys were over reacting to the ads that they were putting out but I saw my first one last night while watching the SCIFI channel (StarGate SG1 RULES!) and I was totally blown away.
The brass pair on the marketing people at that company has to be about the size of Mount Everest. I just sat there jaw hanging open quietly laughing. Blatant rip-off nothing! They practically cut and paste scenes into the commercial. (OK maybe not that far but dang!) If there was any justice in this world, and there isn’t, buymusic.com will go under in a month.

I first saw that ad last night, and I honestly thought it truly was an Apple ad. Then I started thinking "something is strange about the iPods they are holding... hmm" but still the idea never occurred to me this wasn't an Apple ad-- how could it not be?? Without the slightest exaggeration, EVERY aspect of the Apple ads is copied. Obviously at the end I saw it wasn't. Although I am pretty sure if, say, my mom saw that ad, she would be confused that it wasn't Apple.

Plus, Apple should really go after that "79¢" thing that flashes at the end of the buymusic.com ad. When Apple says "99¢", every single song you can buy is ALWAYS 99¢, no more no less. Buymusic does not have that 79 for every song by any means.

Since basically the copied style of that ad is saying "you know the iTMS? We are EXACTLY like the iTunes Music Store, but look, only 79¢". And it's not even true. In fact, the ad almost says "hey, maybe we *are* the Windows iTunes Music Store". Intentional brand confusion.

Okay I'm done.

 

[ptd]

Re: Re: MusicMatch is coming too

Your mention of 9 months of reputation and press got me thnking. The best thing we should be doing as ITMS customers is show all of our friends how much this service rules. Show it off and get all of our friends counting down the days until the service opens.

Originally posted by macnews
Both are due out at year end so Apple should be fine so long as they meet the deadline and come out just before musicmatch.

Apple will also have almost 9 months of press and reputation to play on where Musicmatch won't be quit as established (in terms of an online download service).

 

[Snowy_River]

Re: Re: Re: MusicMatch is coming too

Originally posted by ptd
Your mention of 9 months of reputation and press got me thnking. The best thing we should be doing as ITMS customers is show all of our friends how much this service rules. Show it off and get all of our friends counting down the days until the service opens.

That's a great idea. The only downside that I've found is that most Windows users I talk to say that they couldn't care less about a service that charges $.99 per song when they can get it for free from P2P.

Does this mean that Mac users are inherently more law-abiding?

 

[vrapan]

Does this mean that Mac users are inherently more law-abiding?

That would give to the record industry something to think about. Just imagine copyright protected CDs only for PC users or "No online music stores allowed for Windows users." I am telling you tough DRM on Windows is the best advertisement for Macs

 

[jaedreth]

Mac users more law abiding?

Actually, for the most part, yes.

PC users want it *cheap* if not free. (generalization)

Mac users want quality. Mac users expect to get what they pay for. They'd rather spend $0.99 and get a song in superb quality, than to get it for free and have to put up with the lack of quality.

Jaedreth

 

[papaash]

Re: Musicmatch

Originally posted by vrapan
In my PC days - till February this year - after that I bought a cute little PowerBook and got hooked to Apple big time MusicMatch was my music jukebox of choice. It is not bad software but:

1. It is not match for the elegance of iTunes not even close. in iTunes I had categorised and fixed my 1000+ songs in a couple of hours. In musicmatch I had kinda given up.

2. All the first major releases and the next two or three minor updates are unstable big time. I mean I started using it since 5.00 till the 5.2 no kidding it was crashing several times a day. Things got much better on 5.5 i think. Then the same with 6 - 6.2 and 7-7.2 and then now 8 my bro that still has a PC says it is crashing on him quite often. Never used it with a Windows iPod but after this sort of experience I am not sure I want to.

...I recently left the Wintel world, too (about two months ago, after a fifteen-year hiatus from Apple), and I think your post is spot on...

...my music jukebox of choice was RealJukebox...I was using a real older version, (4.0 or 5.0?), because everytime Real updated their software, it became more cumbersome, more restrictive and more buggy...it became, finally, a major pain in the behind to do anything with it - or that memory eater Windows Media Player - and other products like Winamp just didn't do it for me...

...but I can't think of a program in the Wintel world of audio software that works like iTunes...everything's done in the background, so there's very little for you to organize and such; you rip and fuggedaboutit...the "Shuffle" feature doesn't choose three hundred songs out of a library of 1500 and continuously loop them to your increasing consternation...the integration with the OS is hassle-free, and with Music Store it's virtually seamless; because OS X doesn't have all that stuff going on in the background screwing with your downloads (unlike Windoze), when you buy music it is on your hard drive within seconds...the way iTunes compliments my iPod is just phenomenal (and I do so love my iPod; it's just one more reason why - along with my iMac - Apple continues to prove itself as a world-class leader and innovator)...

...upon further reflection, and to be blunt, there is nothing in the Wintel world that can compete with iTunes for ease-of-use, intuitiveness and simplicity...it is not a chore to organize your music, burn it to CDs, copy it to your mp3 player, or add new tunes, as it is with every music organizer I've ever had the displeasure of using with Micro$oft...

...I don't think Apple has anything to worry about, as far as head-to-head competition goes...there will be a choice, to be sure, but I think that if Apple is able to make iTunes for Windoze resemble the Mac version as closely as possible (a chore, I know, considering how Windoze is supported by every two-bit computer manufacturer there is), and is - more importantly - able to highlight and stress those differences to its target audience through marketing and a grassroot word-of-mouth campaign, then the choice will be clear: do you want a substandard program and music store that restricts how you manipulate your content and is a dog to manuver through, or do you want a pristine program that combines simplicty with elegance and offers a great music-buying service, to boot?...

 

[pcharles]

Just goes to show

How the windows industry cannot be trusted to do anything without piracy.

 

[Phil Of Mac]

Re: Re: Down to the wire

Originally posted by tduality
The computer is authorized by the ethernet hardware addess? Could I 'authorize' another computer by plugging in this ethernet card. This would deauthorize the other one so its not worth the trouble, just asking.

Your Mac has an ethernet *card*?

Originally posted by hayesk
Main Logic Board. In most Macs, the ethernet card is on there.

Otherwise known as the motherboard, or the mobo for short.

Originally posted by Snowy_River
Does this mean that Mac users are inherently more law-abiding?

Statistically, we're better educated and make more money, so as far as the demographics break down, yes.

Then again, both Clinton and G.W. Bush are Mac users...

 

[Foocha]

I understand that Mac users have a greater propersity to purchase software than PC users - certainly more so than Linux users