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Steve Jobs' Snarky Testimony Takes Center Stage in iPod Class-Action Lawsuit Opening
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Steve was known to change his mind about stuff. The size of the iPhone at the time was considered the perfect size to fit in your hand but things are different today.
The UI design of iOS 1-6 was suppose to transition people from feature phones and books to the smart device age. Now that everyone basically knows how to work an iOS device a change was sort of needed to make sure that users are able to focus on the content, not the OS. He probably would have allowed iOS 7 but just to a certain extent. so much flat like it is now but not too skeiomorhic that is seems too retro and stitchy.
The trouble is when they lead you to answer that way knowing their next and further on questions will reveal you do know but are deliberately saying "I don't know., I don't recall., and I don't remember."
Lawyers can be smart and they know the judge is looking for the same thing. Dont always expect your being clever and getting away with something.
Why are people so quick to sue
What makes me laugh is all people need to do is Burn a disc of the Music they purchased from iTunes then they can import that music from the disc into the player they choose. Why are people so quick to sue? Oh, I know, they think they will get some sort of big payout but the truth is only the lawyers win in a class action suit. We get some sort of credit worth near to nothing meanwhile the lawyers get 50 to 75% of the awarded money which equals the millions sought by the person suing in the first place. If I am going to sue I'm not doing a class action suit.
What makes me laugh is all people need to do is Burn a disc of the Music they purchased from iTunes then they can import that music from the disc into the player they choose. Why are people so quick to sue? Oh, I know, they think they will get some sort of big payout but the truth is only the lawyers win in a class action suit. We get some sort of credit worth near to nothing meanwhile the lawyers get 50 to 75% of the awarded money which equals the millions sought by the person suing in the first place. If I am going to sue I'm not doing a class action suit.
The DMCA has implications for RealNetworks here (e.g. https://www.chillingeffects.org/topics/15 ). IMO not a good law, but seems to apply.
Being a CEO shouldn't preclude you from being a nice person. I never asked him to be my friend. But I sure as hell wouldn't have worked for him. Leading by intimidation/terror isn't the type of leader I'd want to associate with. But, I guess if that makes him someone's hero, more power to them.
So people bought a music player designed to play music you ripped from CDs you purchased or downloaded from the iTunes store, then sued because it didn't do more than it was advertised to do? Come on.
It wasn't actually about that, it was about other companies trying to sell music with DRM that worked on an iPod. Which had a totally, totally simple solution: Sell music without DRM! Which is what everybody is doing today.
You seem delusional.
'If the market tells us were making the wrong choices we listen to the market,' - Steve Jobs on not including Flash in the iPad. It could easily apply to phone screen size too.
Source: http://youtu.be/a20s-blv3b4
Your comparison makes no sense to me. These files were not playable because DRM was implemented to explicitly block this possibility, not because there was some "innovation" in their encoding making other decoders obsolete. The unencrypted stream was AAC, which is an ISO standard.
Every apple product is "locked" to itunes!
WTF is this?
Just add MP3s to itunes, it's not that hard.
Itunes is a wonderful music player too. Not as customizable as I'd like but still great.
WTF is this?
Just add MP3s to itunes, it's not that hard.
Itunes is a wonderful music player too. Not as customizable as I'd like but still great.
What about DRM for Movies?
Apple, and others, still heavily DRM Movies and TV Shows. Hollywood requires it.
You cannot take a digital show from Amazon and move it to anything else but Amazon's servers.. Same with iTunes rented or purchased Movie/TV content...
So how can this be 'OK' for Video content and it not be 'OK' for DRM'd music?
Talk about double standards .. this makes no sense.. except when you consider Hollywood has a ton of cash to buy off politicians ...
This isn't Apple's fault, or Amazons, or any other content providers.. but you can be sure Apple is blamed for it.
Apple, and others, still heavily DRM Movies and TV Shows. Hollywood requires it.
You cannot take a digital show from Amazon and move it to anything else but Amazon's servers.. Same with iTunes rented or purchased Movie/TV content...
So how can this be 'OK' for Video content and it not be 'OK' for DRM'd music?
Talk about double standards .. this makes no sense.. except when you consider Hollywood has a ton of cash to buy off politicians ...
This isn't Apple's fault, or Amazons, or any other content providers.. but you can be sure Apple is blamed for it.
Thats the part I don't get. Its the same as it is at the moment with the movie market.
Well, not quite. Apple chose a proprietary DRM that other companies could not use. Even if Apple invented the best-ever DRM because nothing that met their standards was available, they could have licensed it to other companies.
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The difference is that Apple has been doing this for long enough for the lawsuits to come to fruition. The lawsuits will get to Amazon eventually.
Yes, the home gaming console and handheld gaming markets have been doing this forever. This is only different because the iPod sold more units than pretty much any gaming ever (more than Wii or PlayStation 2, the biggest selling) and at a profit while doing it. So this is most likely about someone wanting some of that money.
This whole situation is quite sketchy, Apple tends to under promise and over deliver (or "the Toyota ethos" from Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson) which is completely fine and holds water, more so than say the recent false advertisement claim and loss for Sony for its claim that its PlayStation Vita handheld can play PlayStation 3 games over a cellular connection; few games were ever supported and it only worked properly on Wi-Fi on the same network... Apple's in a much better positioning by having more honest, if understated marketing for its audio players.
Tort reform would end all of this waste of time. Lawyers would lose incentive to create a stink out of nothing.
Why would anyone be vilified for being ruthless with their company when another company is using underhanded tactics? You can't be a CEO if you don't know how to fight, or you shouldn't be.
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Unfortunately, Tort Reform would also close the gap for complete corporate control of our humanity.
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Promise and deliver works far better than under promising and over delivering, the guy that coined the term is now on speaking tours trying to explain how that strategy never really worked long term. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Otherwise, I agree with your points.
The amount of bs rumoring about Steve being a tyrant goes back to Apple 1.0. He was nothing like those early days.
A hacker is generally looked at as an amateur. A company acting as a hacker is completely unprofessional and disingenuous - he's holding it up to the standard that Apple has to be compared to, not himself in his teenage years...not that he ever tried to sell anything he hacked.
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So you're going to decompress an MP3 file to a WAV then compress it again. Do you realize how crappy that sounds?