@Free.
Honestly, and with no intention whatsoever of being ironic, I find it hard to see what your point is?
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Originally Posted by Graham
Ah thanks, Harry. It wasn't clear there that you were replying to djgreedo's comment earlier.
However, MS doesn't force djgreedo to use iTunes; it's the catalogue available that's attractive.
Graham
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Sure, but ms was in position of power (by far more power than apple had) to bring a product such as itunes with an attractive catalog yet they failed miserably with the interface, the drm, the labels, podcasts, itune u...pretty much in everything. So I was commenting in that implicitly they are forcing the other forum member to use the "terrible" itunes, because despite how good and great ms is to the other member's mind they have done most of the things he/she requires terribly. It's like waiting for mercedes for 10 years to come up with the car you want and then blaming bmw for coming up with a car that does do what you want to some extent yet you find it terrible. It's not apple's fault that ms under the guidance of an arch bozo, and in a climate of corporate culture that by all accounts is self destructive to say the least, have failed so consistently in some many areas such as drm, content delivery for media, mobile devices etc. etc.
Said bald guy was laughing in a mocking way when the iphone was released and bragged that windows (ce, me, or whatever excuse for a mobile os they had) where on so many phones. Where exactly are windows on smartphones at the moment? Nowhere. Because they failed to understand the concept of a syncing/content/managment software like itunes, failed to understand the concept of an app store, failed to understand the concept (again...) os os and hardware integration, failed to undertand the concept of imposing their rules on the carriers instead of the other way around, failed to understand the concept of providing regular mobile os updates separately from whatever the carriers did, failed to understand the importance of multi touch, etc. etc. They just failed on so many fronts, and miserably.
One can then hardly blame the "terrible" itunes for that. It's funny when all others are dragging their feet with glaring inadequacies that apple gets heat for the most minor issues.