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Steve Jobs and Apple telling half-truths about DRM

This has already been covered ad nasuem , but I thought I should mention Apple's denouncement of DRM last week. Steve Jobs summarily dismissed Apple's DRM as a result of demands from the record labels. Since Apple does not own or control any music itself, it must license the rights to distribute music...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-13-2007
A look at Apple and Microsoft strategies

I've been thinking about some of the interesting strategic decisions that Microsoft has made lately. I already discussed their curious IP licensing strategy , and their choices with Zune and Windows Media Player have me similarly baffled. In many ways, these moves have been something I expect more from...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-01-2007
Podcast support in Windows Media Player 11

There is one other issue I need to deal with before I can totally switch to Windows Media Player 11 - podcast support. Microsoft made the head-scratching decision not to include native podcast support - one area where iTunes really excelled. Someone wrote a plugin over the summer , but it doesn't work...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-28-2006

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