I wonder if this has much to do with the Free Software Foundation's Defective by Design campaign for DRM-free media. Linux users tend to be a lot more vocal than Mac users when it comes to anti-DRM measures, even if they're a smaller community. It still irritates me, however, that they brought out a version of the iPlayer for the iPhone before they did so for desktop Linux. The iPhone irritates the Free Software Foundation (and me) anyway for its DRM-laden operating system, and it annoys me even more for other inferior characteristics over other smartphones. | |
Yeah that's why I don't use iTunes. It's a piece of shit. I bought one song from it and learned I couldn't even play it in Winamp. I ditched iTunes and I now use Winamp to upload my songs to my iPood. | |
Your Ipood eh? =P Sorry, that got the best of me. | |
well for apple users not minding lots of drm is because Steve Jobs never told them it's a bad thing and told ppl it was good. as for the size, i do believe linux has a bigger install base than mac users do
most anything irritates the FSF, as for lack of features in the iphone compared to other smartphone, the only big thing it's missing is a physical qwerty keyboad, other than that it's got most of the other features that people use and those it doesn't you can dl from the app store | |
In servers, easily, in desktops, no. If netbooks continue to gain popularity and Windows remains unable to accommodate them, Linux might end up getting a higher install base, but when it comes to personal computers, Mac OS X easily beats Linux, and in turn is absolutely destroyed by Windows.
It also lacks expandable memory and a replaceable battery. These are things that smartphones have been doing almost from the start. Even the Nokia 9110 Communicator had support for MMC cards. That's some pretty flawed design work right there, if you ask me. | |
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"Auntie Beeb" Comes To The Mac
Video streaming service Iplayer is now in beta for the Mac and Linux.
Since Iplayer's the initial launch in July 2007, it has been bringing the delights of the British Broadcasting Corporation to a wider audience, people who don't have time to sit and watch it whilst it's on, but want to download and watch it later - but only if they had a Windows-running PC. This caused a bit of an uproar amongst the Mac and Linux crowd and the inevitable internet petition ensued.
The reason for this delay to non-Windows lovers? No-one would support the DRM involved (BBC program will self-delete after one week, usually), but now that it has Adobe AIR, the technology can be passed onto both the Mac and Linux.
The full Iplayer is looking to be released in the first quarter of 2009, and it will also replace the Kontiki version that's currently running on the PC.
To those of you already bored with TV, it may not seem like much but since its launch, iPlayer has found its audience growing substantially, notching up more than one million program requests per day during November and 237 million program requests in total since the service's launch.
Source : ZDNET
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