Darth Tater
Sunday 16th January, 2005 01:43 Comments: 0
All credit to Dave for spotting this.
I spotted that Apple are trying to take over the music world with iTunes. I tried to install QuickTime and apparently the download for 2000/XP now comes with iTunes, so you start downloading it - except it's just the usual iTunes software (because it also installs QuickTime). I decided to grab the 98/Me version instead. Apple, we're not stupid. If we wanted iTunes we'd have gone to the iTunes part of the site.
Looks like eXeem will be out next week, I don't know how successful it'll be, as it doesn't sound like it's anonymous or anything special. They reckon we can rate files if people put fake stuff up, but presumably the fakers could fake the ratings too? And the ssoftware itself contains adware and only runs on Windows. I don't think it'll do very well. People will just stick with the other sites until something better comes along (MUTE sounds great in theory, but it doesn't have any content and things take longer to download, but perhaps something like it will be all the rage next year?).
I spotted that Apple are trying to take over the music world with iTunes. I tried to install QuickTime and apparently the download for 2000/XP now comes with iTunes, so you start downloading it - except it's just the usual iTunes software (because it also installs QuickTime). I decided to grab the 98/Me version instead. Apple, we're not stupid. If we wanted iTunes we'd have gone to the iTunes part of the site.
Looks like eXeem will be out next week, I don't know how successful it'll be, as it doesn't sound like it's anonymous or anything special. They reckon we can rate files if people put fake stuff up, but presumably the fakers could fake the ratings too? And the ssoftware itself contains adware and only runs on Windows. I don't think it'll do very well. People will just stick with the other sites until something better comes along (MUTE sounds great in theory, but it doesn't have any content and things take longer to download, but perhaps something like it will be all the rage next year?).