I haven’t quite thought about it this way but assuming Apple becomes a monopoly and iTunes is a new encompassing DRM manager, as opposed to a media manager. How many people would realize before it’s too late that Apple dominates your life?
Would you? Would I?
If the service provided is competitive and “just works”, would we care?
Ever have one of those moments when you thought you had lost your entire MP3 library, only to realize that some of it is on your iPod but you can’t do anything to transfer them back? Use Pod to Mac, or Pod to PC to do a reverse iPod/iPhone to Mac/PC transfer and you’re set!
Probably the coolest feature in the latest iTunes 8.1 update. The iPhone/iPod Remote app also received an update that allows registered Remotes on the same WiFi network to queue songs in iTunes for playback. Sort of a DJ system where a party of people can queue up their favorites from their phone/iPod and then have it playback from the playlist.
People participating can also vote on the songs to move up and down by voting.
Hate the fact that you can’t disable the iTunes link arrows in the new iTunes 8? I can’t believe Apple took this feature out. Here’s how you can remove them, or better, use them for a different function.
In other news, it seems like Microsoft and Apple are going through a role reversal and very soon Windows 7 will crush OS X once and for all!