Is Apple a Hypocrite?

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?

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

I had to put in the nod for the hippos

It's the guy fawkes plot all over again.

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

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

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

windows media player sucks though.

winamp plays them without any tweaks

and the soft version is barely a meg

snuggles eest

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

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

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Originally Posted by eestlinc

windows media player sucks though.

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

Yeah, but it works fine for me.

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...

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Originally Posted by Samuraid

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

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

What about the KaZaA Lite built-in media player?

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

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

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Originally Posted by Not At All Reno

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Originally Posted by Samuraid

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

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

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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.

Yes.

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