But they do!
As it stands iTunes is the ONLY game in town for DRM'd music if you want the iPod market.
DRM'd music is cheaper than non DRM music, because its a lesser product, as such they are completely nocking out people from that market.
How come its only france, the land of surrendering and lazy farmers that stands up to them?
As for business plans, all companies have a legal obligation to their shareholders, ie all of them want to be a monopoly. This really is more of a tax, than about anti-trust.
Take the WMP one, in windows 7 for instance we see more of the Windows Home Server like database of music/vids, or Library if you will which is shared out to extenders...
Now arguments about which standard to use, and how uselessly vauge uPnP is, a platform has to have these APIs now adays. As such these tools become integral parts of the OS.
For instance with IE its half of those APIs that control the 'zone' definitions which automatically change security settings (from XP Sp2 onwards).
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Of course it's a core part of the OS. When you buy a computer, joe public expects it to be able to connect to the internet via his homehub without any hitches. What does he do when the test page doesn't load up because the browser doesn't "exist"
To be fair, their new in ear buds have had generally good reviews and are comparable to other 'phones in the same price range.
Hey everyone,
i think it should be uninstallable and not be part of the core OS.
when i play games using windows live messenger i get a uac prompt that says internet explorer installer. i mean wtf im using windows live messenger not internet explorer...
thing is i always have the lastest installers for firefox and opera on disc so i dont even need internet explorer to download them.
windows update is a seprate application in vista so other applications such as windows live messenger including the games that is used with it should be able to work fully without internet explorer. just make it a seprate application that is easily uninstallable so i can remove it if i want to. plus if there is an issue with it i can remove and reinstall it.
do you know what i mean? if not pleas say what bit you dont get.
if you understand what are your thoughts?
with windows media player why cant they just add the codecs to the OS but not install media player.
just add windows media player as an option under the windows live applications?
i use media monkey and VLC so have no need for WMP
lodore, where do you draw the line?
I've a whole bunch of code in production at work. I use a bunch of APIs (bits of the operating system that provides the functionality for programs) that all need an "internet browsing platform".
Now that HAS to be there, the last thing you wnat is people installing/un-installing it.
One of the reasons debian's package manager is so brialiant is because it HAS to solve so many problems. There are about 10 different apps that provide the same library functions as each other. Its a pain in the arse when your trying to develop, you have so many different platforms to target. That is a problem.
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Hello TheAnimus,
i was thinking of drawing the line with the applications that come bundled with the OS. the stuff that is needed by other programs to function of course should be left behind.
by seprating IE from the core of the OS removing it shouldnt cause any issue to anyother applications do you agree?
I agree that one of the main problems with opensourse is that anyone can change anycode at any time. someone might remove some code from say firefox which another devoloper was using and now there program wont work with it. example some sort of adblocker
on a random note i like package managers alot. updating everything using one application is great. i dual boot fedora 10 atm and i like it alot.
Last edited by lodore; 18-01-2009 at 12:21 AM.
WMP, think about the Library.
There are always issues with these apps, because these are apps that are taken for granted to allow other apps to do functions.
Even notepad might be assumed to be present by some applications!
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I would be HIGHLY pissed off if an operating system was bundled without basic media and connectivity packages. Even if provided on-disk as an option, i would question what i was paying for.
By the sounds of it, a fancy file browser that can't actually open any of the files or even read a text document. It's doesn't matter that they bundled it and that it's "still there", it's time wasted and if you're in a situation where you have to manually install windows on X number of pc's and you have to choose which fundamental packages you want every time..
Hey Whiternoise,
i know what you mean.
i just remembereed that without WMP iplayer wouldnt work,alot of online radio wouldnt work etc.
im looking forward to windows 7. i may decide to be an early adopter to it. all my applications and hardware already work with the beta and its fast and stable.
Absolutely utter bollocks. This is one of the most ridiculous thing's I've heard in an attempt to fill a fools pocket. Bull****.
and as for the iPod, open it's folder in my computer, enable hidden folders, click the music folder and drag and drop into there. I think this works .
Well this is OT, but I have to make the plug. For the ipod, get rockbox.
- Better sound quality
- More features (proper playlists, parametric equaliser, FLAC, gapless playback.....)
- Skinable - can make own themes - so looks nicer
- Can drag and drop wherever you want on the drive and browse to playback
- It's open source
- There are loads more advantages
Only downside is, that if you have one of those gimmicky ipods then Rockbox is not compatible. But if you bought one of those, then you are probably not an audiophile, so you would be happy with sub-standard quality music with a sub-standard quality OS.
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