From the daily archives:

Saturday, August 2, 2008

It’s time for the digital hub to quietly die

August 2, 2008

In a post about iPhone calendar syncing, John Gruber notes this: “But as it stands today, with MobileMe syncing, there is no hub.” John is right – and it’s now time for the digital hub to go away. With the iPhone 2.0 release, iTunes has been reduced to music transfer, podcast hub and playlist management. [...]

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It’s time for the digital hub to quietly die

August 2, 2008

In a post about iPhone calendar syncing, John Gruber notes this: “But as it stands today, with MobileMe syncing, there is no hub.” John is right – and it’s now time for the digital hub to go away. With the iPhone 2.0 release, iTunes has been reduced to music transfer, podcast hub and playlist management. [...]

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Why the DRM industry is clueless about consumers

August 2, 2008

Guy Tennant, chief operating officer of Entriq, a company that helps online stores manage DRM’d products, thinks that a company terminating your use of music is just like when you lose a CD: “Tennant says he doesn’t want to sound unsympathetic but reminds digital-music buyers that CD owners don’t demand a refund from stores when [...]

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Why the DRM industry is clueless about consumers

August 2, 2008

Guy Tennant, chief operating officer of Entriq, a company that helps online stores manage DRM’d products, thinks that a company terminating your use of music is just like when you lose a CD: “Tennant says he doesn’t want to sound unsympathetic but reminds digital-music buyers that CD owners don’t demand a refund from stores when [...]

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