iPhone / iPpod features to get rid off - Authentication Chips!!!
Adrian C
hardware instead - this time it's headphones on the new Shuffle.
Please seriously consider voting with your feet if they carry this
restrictive practice over to new releases of the iPhone and the iPod.
The 'chipped' video lead is bad enough.
But headphone choice is a personal thing, now fu&k'd up by their desire
to control the sale of accessories.
Some folks can't wear earbuds, joggers find they fall out! Some desire
better audio quality from high end alternatives, and improved isolation
of some from/to the outside environment. Some don't want to damage their
hearing and some need better volume and bass.
On the shuffle, those three buttons could have been very easily
integrated onto the main unit!
Idiots.
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Adrian C
Jochem Huhmann
> Apple removed DRM from music on the store, only to drop MORE DRM on the
> hardware instead - this time it's headphones on the new Shuffle.
This is nonsense. There is no DRM in the headphones. Someone found a
chip in there (really!) and speculations went wild. Now it's clear that
the chip is just for implementing the controls.
> Some folks can't wear earbuds, joggers find they fall out! Some desire
> better audio quality from high end alternatives, and improved isolation
> of some from/to the outside environment. Some don't want to damage their
> hearing and some need better volume and bass.
>
> On the shuffle, those three buttons could have been very easily
> integrated onto the main unit!
It may be new to you, but there are other players, even by Apple, which
have buttons in the main unit. I mean, Apple is just offering this
player among others -- if you don't want it, just don't buy it. What are
you arguing for? Less choice? "All MP3-players shall have all buttons in
the main unit"? Or what?
There may be people even *liking* the controls being where there are
instead of in the tiny player. So if these people can buy the new
Shuffle, what's wrong with that? This is surely good and not bad?
Jochem
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longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Adrian C
> Adrian C <em...@here.invalid> writes:
>
>> Apple removed DRM from music on the store, only to drop MORE DRM on the
>> hardware instead - this time it's headphones on the new Shuffle.
>
> This is nonsense. There is no DRM in the headphones.
That was me being a bit silly with the term DRM.
Someone found a
> chip in there (really!) and speculations went wild. Now it's clear that
> the chip is just for implementing the controls.
Agreed. But why use such a chip. Switching resistors is a tried and
tested, and easy tech to implement.
> It may be new to you, but there are other players, even by Apple, which
> have buttons in the main unit. I mean, Apple is just offering this
> player among others -- if you don't want it, just don't buy it.
Correct. Good reason not to IMO. Apple won't stick to the use of this
approach on this player, but will spread this probably cash raising
method to their other products, and beat up competitors that infinge
patents - there is bound to be one somewhere relating to this
"technological breakthrough".
What are
> you arguing for? Less choice?
No, more!
"All MP3-players shall have all buttons in
> the main unit"? Or what?
The customer should be free to easily purchase basic accessories that
are industry standard (and hence work with any device) rather than Apple
freak specific and useless (or restrictive) when used with other
devices. A headphone is an example of a basic device, a dock connector
is not.
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Adrian C