On The Insider: Clint Eastwood Earns Honor
BNET Business Network:
BNET
TechRepublic
ZDNet
TalkBack 6 of 22:
Next »
« Previous
Short term "fix" for what's not broken for the consumer
Whether using a hack, a mod, add-ons from independents or Real, whomever, Apple may face an uphill battle on treatment of what consumers do with a product after its sold (the iPod), and the iTunes as a evolving service.

Apple may have contractual obligations to fulfill with disabling after market products, but those consumers desiring to use will not be bound by those obligations (at least those who forgo the restricted upgrades and/or warranties). This little EULA may become a much discussed and disgusted piece of legalese.

Seems more like a win situation for the hacker who?ll just see the latest Apple fixes as something to unfix, maybe even expand or redirect to other services, and that's the tricky part, making the mod as popular as the product can lend life, if not malice to the attempts. Next thing you know, somebody will be running Linux on the thing, or emulating their PS2 on the new Photo iPod.
Posted by: FilledOut   Posted on: 11/03/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
Reply to Story Reply to Message

Alert moderator to an offensive message

Subscribe to this discussion via Email or RSS

I've known how to enable the iTunes plugin for...  Letophoro | 11/02/04
What Do You Expect?  crescentdave | 11/02/04
Yet ANOTHER reason why I won't be buying an iPod  d_jedi | 11/02/04
Cost them in market share? When? Real Soon Now?  OldeTimeGeek | 11/03/04
I think it is really funny...  Patrick Jones | 11/03/04
Short term "fix" for what's not broken for the consumer  FilledOut | 11/03/04
Can I go back to iTunes 4.6?  deepsnow | 11/03/04
They can shove the IPOD up their A$$  Protector | 11/03/04
Not getting it  ndelc | 11/03/04
Even if so..  d_jedi | 11/03/04
Count on it  ndelc | 11/03/04
Do you have anything to back that up?  voska | 11/03/04
Re: Do you have anything to back that up?  ndelc | 11/03/04
No Prob, just curios (NT)  voska | 11/03/04
And ppl can still brand it rather 'MS' of them  FilledOut | 11/04/04
Honestly I don't care if apple.....  Protector | 11/03/04
This goes to the heart of why it took Steve Jobs...  Joel R | 11/03/04
As an Ipod owner  marmocida | 11/04/04
not buying it  ndelc | 11/04/04
Ways to Move Your Music  ndelc | 11/04/04
Apple ITunes  doc_cotton | 11/04/04
sorry for that,  vici | 11/10/04

What do you think?

SponsoredWhite Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads

advertisement

SmartPlanet

Click Here