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Daring Fireball: Yet Another in the Ongoing Series Wherein I Examine a Piece of Supposedly Serious Apple Analysis From a Major Media Outlet and Dissect Its Inaccuracies, Fabrications, and Exaggerations Point-by-Point, Despite the Fact That No Matter How E

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:24 PM EST

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"He won’t permit music downloaded from competing stores to play on the iPod."
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Except for all the music from any store that sells DRM-free music, like Amazon’s or eMusic’s. Otherwise what’s being argued here is that Apple should support Microsoft’s DRM platform, formerly known as PlaysForSure, recently renamed to “Certified for Windows Vista”, which Microsoft itself doesn’t support in its own Zune players. There’s a lot of stupid packed into the above 13-word sentence.

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gecko85

Ok, I know that's a REALLY long title, but that's what was used on the original article (and I think it's funny as hell) so I kept it.

As usual, Gruber does a great job of dissecting the FUD that hack writers continue to produce. Here's my favorite passage:

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" Apple is at a moment of choice: If it can stay hot and produce breakout couture hardware indefinitely, it can hold onto its closed model, elite pricing, and huge margins. In many ways, the world would be a prettier place if it did.

But in an age of convergence and simplification, customers are ever more insistent that computers, phones, TV, and music systems work together."
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So (a) customers are “ever more insistent that computers, phones, TV, and music systems work together”, and (b) Apple’s entire product strategy in a nutshell is to produce computers, phones, TV, and music players that work really well together, and the conclusion Penenberg draws from this is that Apple is in trouble. Jiminy.

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Reply#1 - Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:27 PM EST
Tedd Riggs
Despite the Fact That No Matter How E

What came after the E ?
That is a long title ! My finger was right on that old Spammer button :-)

It is a funny article...gotta admit.

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Reply#2 - Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:36 AM EST
gecko85

The funny part about the title is that I was only able to get half of it. Here's the rest, starting with the final E:

"Egregious the Inaccuracies / Fabrications / Exaggerations, Such Pieces Inevitably Lead to Accusations That I’m Some Sort of Knee-Jerk Shill Who Rails Against Anything ‘Anti-Apple’ Simply for the Sake of Defending Apple, and if I Love Apple So Much Why Don’t I Just Marry Them?"

Altogether, it's one of the best titles I've ever read for an article. So descriptive. ;-)

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#2.1 - Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:11 AM EST
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