[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Just bought my kid a new computer. She had an Imac but wanted more power. I told her I'd get her anything she wanted except an apple product.

With Algore on their board, they have to die.

[SauronOfMordor]

Realisticly, the Mac hardware platform is limiting them. They have a huge amount of software that runs on OS/X, which is essentially Unix. If Jobs were able to release his hottest products so they could run on Linux and Solaris platforms, he would greatly increase his user base.

[longtermmemmory]

For one, music bought through Apple's service will be protected so that it will be more difficult to use an iPod to transfer songs from one computer to another. Users also won't be able easily to e-mail copies of their purchases, or transfer them to the computers of friends. (However, a customer will be able to play the songs on up to three Macintosh computers that he or she designates, as well as an unlimited number of personal iPods registered to him or her.)

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... and that is why consumers will not want the system. These people are naive. They need to pay attention to consumers and not to their own egos. Consumers do NOT want to be tied to some Rights Gestapo. I buy it its mine. A copyright, like all intelectual rights, is LIMITED. You do not have unfettered enforcement ability.
AOL has it wrong and Apple has it wrong. These are efforts to limit consumers, selling limitation is a loosing proposition. sell apple.

BTW: I am certain disney will have their own computer animators by 2005.