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Apple... What's next?

Lindley said:
My objection to the current model is that you aren't allowed to download something more than once after buying it. Seems to me, you should be buying the rights to download that song/movie whenever you want, so long as it's to an authorized computer.
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Sort of the way the Kindle works. I can download a book, read it, and delete it. I can download it again because it's "archived," as in they have a record that i purchased it already.
 
Geckothan said:
As I see it, if you aren't allowed to store it on your own hard drive, you don't really own it. If they give you the option of storing it on their servers, but let you download it to put on whatever devices you want and listen to it unconditionally, then that's fine.

The fact is, none of these DRM methods are there to benefit the consumer, just the music labels and distributors.
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This.

As long as you can make an offline copy that never expires, I don't have any objection to the "cloud" model here.

I mean, God forbid the company providing such a service goes tits-up, or simply decides they don't want to run it anymore.
 
Is it possible to combine the epaper interface of a kindle with the color screen of an iPad? I would imagine it where if you wanted to read an eBook, your screen would go clear revealing the epaper underneath. Is that even possible?
 
Colored e-paper is probably possible. Backlit e-paper is probably possible.

But the two display technologies are very different, so I doubt they could be effectively combined completely.
 
Lindley said:
Apple doesn't use DRM anymore.
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Apple uses DRM all over the place, just not directly on their music. The entire concept of the App store and it's closed ecosystem on Apple's devices is essentially a form of DRM and a highly restrictive form at that.
 
I'm not familiar with the App store, so I can't speak to that. I was referring more to ITMS.
 
Zion Ravescene said:
Awesome Possum said:
Nintendo does this already with their downloadable games. You only pay for the right to use them, but they are on your console and can be downloaded again for free if you delete them.
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Same with Steam from what I've seen so far.
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Steam games occasionally have additional third party DRM unfortunately.

You can, however, download games that don't have the additional protection as many times as you like to as many different computers as you like.

I think it's only Valve games so far that support it, but they also have support for the Steam Cloud which stores your control settings, saved games etc online so that if you switch computers, your settings and progress are transferred over.
 
Robert Maxwell said:
Arrqh said:
Lindley said:
Apple doesn't use DRM anymore.
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Apple uses DRM all over the place, just not directly on their music. The entire concept of the App store and it's closed ecosystem on Apple's devices is essentially a form of DRM and a highly restrictive form at that.
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"Vendor lock-in" isn't technically considered DRM.
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The Apps themselves are protected with a form of DRM and it is impossible (without jailbreaking) to put any App on an iPhone/iPod/iPad that does not have DRM on it. I suppose I am splitting hairs here but as larger devices get locked in to Apple's ecosystem it's starting to get more and more offensive. They can't pull their full on computers into the loop completely, but I fully expect there to be some implementation of the App store for OSX at some point in the future.

Lindley said:
I'm not familiar with the App store, so I can't speak to that. I was referring more to ITMS.
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Are the videos on ITMS DRM free?
 
I don't actually know about that. I've never tried downloading a TV episode on one machine and playing it on another.
 
Foley0402 said:
Apple recently purchased media streaming company Lala, so there is a lot of talk about a radical overhaul of the iTunes model with iTunes X later this year. The rumors say that everything you purchase will sit server side, so you have access to your library from anywhere.
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I'll just echo others here and say that's completely absurd. Hard disk space is dirt cheap now. I can't imagine why Apple's customer base, 99% iPod/iPhone owners would want their music stuck on a server... oh wait, they use iTunes... nevermind.
 
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