of kids want an iPad
The Nielsen Company presented a cadre of individuals with a list of nice, shiny gadgets and let them cross off anything and everything they'd like to buy in the next six months, and 31 percent of kids 6-12 picked the iPad as one of them.
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HA FIGURED IT OUT.. its all about ITUNES RENTALS.....
All this does is tie you into using the almighty ITUNES.. If you wanna play any media on this thing thats not on the hard drive you need to stream it with ITUNES.....
STEVE JOBS...."hey ladies and gents ive come up with another way to rape you wallet. ive created a laptop that only works with my CLOSED SYSTEM"
simply AMAZING...Please fanboys try and spin this for me...PLEASE.
Last I checked, I could rip whatever I damn well please into iTunes. Explain to me how that is a "closed system", or how it "rapes my wallet".
Im a fanboy & unfortunately, you're right. Its becoming quite clear that Apple is taking notes from the Sony "rape our customers" handbook, which is to lock their users into their proprietary world every single chance they get, squeezing every dollar you can from them.
Apple used to play nice with all this sorta stuff, that is until they started rebounding & making boatloads of cash. Corporate greed at its finest.
@zak Really? You can rip a dvd with iTunes? I didn't know it could do that.
@neeko was talking about the upcoming iTunes movie rentals. Not allowing you to run a dvd off a networked drive has nothing to do with technology and EVERYTHING to do with intentionally limiting access. I mean, if Windows AND linux can do it just fine, why not Apple? Because they chose not to.
@Zak, really, last time I checked the MBA did not have an optical drive to rip from and any DRM'ed media was off limits to remote disk, what's left to rip from? I Agree, it's Apples way of forcing you to download tracks from iTunes. When you get an MBA you should get a USB stick with the OS on it for re-installs and/or, as Sony and so many others did with their ultra slim machines, include an optical drive in the package like the old Sony VAIO Z505. If they could do it then, why cant they do it now, Apple like to re-invent the wheel, or is this going to be an "enhanced" feature?