Star New DRM Low: iPod Shuffle Has Headphone DRM Chip
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 16th Mar 2009 23:00 UTC
Apple Just when you thought that DRM was on its way out, with various music stores abolishing the practice, some company will implement DRM in yet another way that will affect lots of customers in a very negative way. The most recent case of idiotic DRM comes courtesy of a gadget maker from Cupertino. Update: MacWorld provides nuance to the story, with comments from Apple and third-party manufacturers.
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RE[4]: This is wrong!
by aliquis on Tue 17th Mar 2009 16:43 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: This is wrong!"
aliquis
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2005-07-23

At the very least, it is a form vendor lock-in.
Everything Apple does has vendor lockin.

But so is an Intel chipset or Intel CPU (I'd assume you need a chipset built on some released information from Intel), your mobile phone loader (eventually), your DS loader, ...

So f--king what?

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