Yahoo News: This is pretty classic...
I had to roll on the floor laughing when I read this... the idea that Apple would let another company's DRM work on their MP3 players... Apple doesn't play well with other people. It never has. Even if it was working with EMI the response probably would have been the same -- remember how it handled the partnership with Motorola? It refused to say anything to support the device, in fact Steve Jobs managed to insult the device's biggest customer base (carriers), and then when the thing was finally launched Apple launched the Nano on the same day. (Slogan: "Just like an iPod but with less songs and easier to lose"). As an aside, another company has alleged that Apple infringed its patents in making the iPod, although any company with a successful product has to expect that these days. The patent is reportedly for "a list building system", which on first look seems a little unwarranted.
"Apple is nearly finished with the technical work necessary to enable consumers to transfer music from content protected discs to their iPods," said the EMI statement."The information EMI provided regarding iTunes and iPod compatibility with Macrovision's technology is not true and we have no idea why EMI made this statement," Apple said in a statement provided to MacCentral.
"We have read Apple's statement and we have no comment," an EMI representative, told MacCentral.
I had to roll on the floor laughing when I read this... the idea that Apple would let another company's DRM work on their MP3 players... Apple doesn't play well with other people. It never has. Even if it was working with EMI the response probably would have been the same -- remember how it handled the partnership with Motorola? It refused to say anything to support the device, in fact Steve Jobs managed to insult the device's biggest customer base (carriers), and then when the thing was finally launched Apple launched the Nano on the same day. (Slogan: "Just like an iPod but with less songs and easier to lose"). As an aside, another company has alleged that Apple infringed its patents in making the iPod, although any company with a successful product has to expect that these days. The patent is reportedly for "a list building system", which on first look seems a little unwarranted.
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