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Originally Posted by scottjl
Um. I already load all my own TV and movies. I've never bought a single episode off of iTunes. Yes, you have to load them in through iTunes, but you don't have to get them from there. I actually prefer to rip my own music and movies as I tend to do so at a higher quality (lame --preset extreme and HandBrake High Profile) than what Apple sells. So don't tell me you can't load your own content and have to buy from the Apple store, that simple is not true....
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Um. I jailbreak my iPhones so I can tether....
But this is not the point. As long as it requires a few steps and a few conversions, most of the public will just click "buy" and be done.
If you are traveling, most will not know how to load content from another computer, even if it had iTunes on it (since the iPad will not be authorized for that computer). Again, most will then click "buy."
USB would make it easier to bypass Apple's media-selling ecosystem, which is not what Apple wants.
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Originally Posted by scottjl
... Really, what's with the hatred of iTunes? While it has it's flaws, it still is a decent application for managing a music and video library....
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Have you tried to load media from another, unauthorized computer? If you did, iTunes will tell you that it will erase all the current content on your iPhone, before it let's you load the media you want to load.
And in 3.1.3 you CANNOT bypass this restriction, regardless of how savvy you are.