Is Apple a Hypocrite?

[Flying Mullet]

I was looking at an article about Apple the other day and the major success that their iPod has been. Then I was also reading about how the iPod and iTunes does not play well with others in regards to file formats and inter-operability with other brands and that iTunes was only recently made available for Windows.. So I started thinking about all of the hoopla that Apple and Microsft went through about how Microsoft is a monopoly and doesn't play well with others and so on and so forth.

So my question is do you think that Apple is a hyporcite now for making their iTunes and iPod so proprietary?

[Psychotic]

Yes, but when you have a poll option that includes hippos it's very hard to resist.

[Flying Mullet]

I had to put in the nod for the hippos

[Rasputen]

It's the guy fawkes plot all over again.

[eestlinc]

I wish iTunes would play the OGG vorbis radiohead files Krissy sent me.

[Dreddz]

my iPod is somewere but cant be assed to find it
iTunes works well on iPod but Ive only ever bought one song

[Samuraid]

Yes. Most certainly. Windows media player plays OGG even. (with a little codec work)

[eestlinc]

windows media player sucks though.

[krissy]

winamp plays them without any tweaks

and the soft version is barely a meg

snuggles eest

[eestlinc]

but but but
my winamp disappeared
does it use a lot of RAM?
because iTunes sure does

[krissy]

not at all (reno)
in fact i'd rather boot winamp up than DivX or WMP beacause it's faster and i don't hear as much noise coming fromthe computer box

[Samuraid]

windows media player sucks though.
Opinion. I happen to think winamp sucks (can't even play WMA correctly) so there. :p

[Rainecloud]

Yeah, but it works fine for me.

[Skogs]

It'll cost you a blank CD per audio CD, but it's cheaper than getting audio converting software:

1. Burn your Ogg Vorbis tracks to an audio (normally playable CD).
2. Rip the CD - save the file as mp3s.

It'd work on a small scale, but probably not the best if your entire music library is encoded as Ogg Vorbis...

[krissy]

(can't even play WMA correctly) so there. :p


mine plays them fine
i think you have a black market copy

[Yamaneko]

What about the KaZaA Lite built-in media player?

[boris no no]

*eats apple*
i don't like ipods.
apple make good/great computers for design and stuff.
i get confused when things get.....confusing! :p

[MecaKane]

iTunes sucks. Wmp sucks. All Winamp versions past 2.91 suck. :D

[Samuraid]

(can't even play WMA correctly) so there. :p


mine plays them fine
i think you have a black market copy

A fresh copy of winamp 5 from winamp.com, windows media audio 9 pro Lossless @ about 800kpbs vbr...lots of audio break-ups. No, its not my hardware, every other WMA-capable player worked fine.

It worked fine playing mp3s though.

[strawberryman]

Yes.

[rubah]

I don't have any apple stuff or an ipod, so I voted for HIPPOS!:DDDDDD