I agree that Apple's lock in tactics with iTunes/iPod is a bit sucky
and that lots of people have had problems with the whole
synchronising deal. I really appreciate their industrial design
though and their marketing is pretty good. If you gauged Apple usage
statistics through movies and television you'd think it was around 90%!
The Macbook Air certainly won't be for everyone, but as a sofa tool
it seems to fit the bill very well.
What do people in the Linux community think of OS X anyway? It's
pretty close to FreeBSD in many ways I believe. I did notice that
it's getting ZFS soon too :)
On 16/01/2008, at 11:09 PM, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> * Vic (lug@???) wrote:
>>> The way iPods are tied to iTunes is also very annoying.
>>
>> They work rather well[1] with gtkpod...
>>
>> Vic.
>>
>> [1] For video, gtkpod is actually better than iTunes
>
> It is fair to say that that is not intended functionality. If it
> was, they would have enabled playing files copied to the device in
> usb mass storage mode.
>
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