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Originally Posted by elcreative
Weirdly, you seem to have missed a factual point... Apple didn't want DRM... this received wide coverage at the time on the 'net, in the press and TV news and documentaries... this was the point HarryT was making and I was agreeing with... your reply was hinting at conspiracies, "You're very trusting..." and anti-Apple in its import. I'd make similar statements about similar remarks concerning any business practice from any business where the facts were being ignored.
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That it was reported is a fact. That it was true is not. No conspiracy theory is needed to believe that a multibillion dollar corporation's communications in the course of negotiations with other multibillion dollar corporations included "spin". It would be incredible, in fact, to presume that something coming from any company of that size was the unfiltered, unabridged truth (or "fact"). To do so would ignore the fact that multinational corporations, like politicians, have talking points and PR campaigns aimed at bettering their market positions, negotiating positions and strengthening their brand. Communications are a means to achieve a goal and no more. If you take those campaigns at face-value, yes, I'm going to refer to you as "trusting". And although you assumed I meant that negatively, I actually find the trait admirable. I wouldn't want to be trusting myself, but it's nice to know someone is.
What's more, I did not ignore this claim. My statement to HarryT focused on
the impact, on the results to Apple, rather than Apple's subjective intent. They benefited from DRM whether they desired its existence or not. When they led the way to freeing music from its grasp, they had already reaped the rewards that DRM offers to outlets.
So based on a single thing I didn't actually do, you condescendingly dismissed me and any thought I might have as being the result of some sort of weird vendetta. That's very thoughtful, classy and fair of you.
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Never mind HarryT, you're arguing with someone who "knows" all about 'Evil Apple" so never lets the facts get in the way of rhetorical statements...
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