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Apple Sends Mixed Message

March 27th 2008 11:15
Someone actually read the Firefox EULA, wow, and found draconian terms and conditions (who would have thought?).

In using Apple Software Update to slip his Safari browser onto millions of Windows PCs, Steve Jobs didn't just undermine "the security of the whole Web". He's made a mockery of end user licensing agreements.

As spotted by our Italian friends at setteB.IT, Apple's Safari license says that users are permitted to install the browser on no more than "a single Apple-labeled computer at a time." This means that if you install Safari for Windows on a Windows PC, you're violating the license.


Apple forbids Windows users from installing Safari for Windows
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Twentieth Century Fox and Apple have signed a deal to allow Apple to lease newly released DVDs through downloads via iTunes. No news on the pricing but its expected to be around $2.99 per download.

The exact details of the deal will probably be announced during Macworld or maybe just some random spontaneous Apple news conference. Steve Jobs hasn't done one of those in a while.

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Apple's New iPods Only Work With iTunes

September 15th 2007 05:28
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Locked to iTunes, But For How Long?
Umm, ouch? Apple has decided to make the new iPods only work using iTunes and locking out all third party software. This effectively turns iTunes and the iPod into one package, no other MP3 player can use iTunes given it has DRM further shunning out competition. Apple is holding a gun to its consumers head, plain and simple.

As Apple does, part of its marketting plan, establish a good market then lock out competing software hence mp3 players. Which sap would like to completely change over MP3 players and lose thousands of downloaded only from iTunes?

Still, it isn't all hell, I mean, this is software, someones bound to crack this silly iTunes only pain and suffering. Even Apples pride and joy, DRM, has been cracked, severel damned times no less.

Then again, Apple has started asking the community to stop cracking iPhones. But hey what the hey, thats STILL not going to stop people from cracking the damned things protection.
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Apples latest iWork 08 suite supports loading and writing to Microsofts own standard OOXML formats. Big deal? No, not really, you have to support a format that has a good chance of becoming an industry standard. This format is already supported in Microsoft Office 2007.

So why is it embarrasing for Microsoft? Because MS Office for OS X does not support OOXML. Big deal? You might think so, except for the fact the last Mac Office from Microsoft was released in 2004 and the next one isn't due until 2008


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