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- Open Thread Weekend: We answer tech questions, too
Although we at The Apple Blog like to hand down our knowledge and opinions on all things AAPL (sometimes a little too self-righteously, sure, but aren’t bloggers supposed to be snarky and provocative?), the real reason we’re here is to serve cool readers like you. Yep, you! Whether through the articles we write, or by answering the questions you post in open threads, our purpose as TAB bloggers is to offer you assistance and insight into the Apple world and the Cult of Mac.
Is there some technical topic about OS X that has been bugging you for a while? Prof. MacLovin is here to help! Whether it’s configuring launchd(8) services or getting that issue resolved with your blinking AirPort Extreme status light, run it by me. Having problems getting your favorite GNU software to compile? I’ve been there and done that: I feel your pain, and I will ease it. If you accidentally break down your software RAID-1 device in Disk Utility, though, you’re out of luck. I’ve been there and felt that pain, too, and there’s nothing that can be done.
So have it: What’s on your mind? Anything that you’ve been trying to accomplish with your Mac that you can’t quite figure out? We’ll work through it together. Answers to your questions are just a comment away.
open thread, os x, technical adviceКомментарии к сообщению:
http://theappleblog.com/2007/09/14/open-thread-weekend-we-answer-tech-questions-too/#comments - Don't be a jerk about ringtones
I was excited to learn that Ringtones were now a part of iTunes. I thought it would be great if I could mash up some stuff in GarageBand, or shoot, even my current iTunes tracks, and easily get them on my iPhone. I hurriedly downloaded my new copy of iTunes to get this ability to work. So I right click on my Vanilla Ica song and I’m told I can’t create this ringtone because it isn’t available. Wha? I own this song! I bought the CD and imported it. Its mine, not AT&T’s or Apple’s. Mine, and yes of course I share it with the Vanilla Ice and their label. Other than that, it shouldn’t cost me a thing to throw this on my $599 iPhone. Secondly, if I can buy the whole song for a buck, why would I want 30 seconds of it for the same price?
In short, Apple and AT&T, stop being jerks about ringtones. Sure, I get that we as a society probably don’t want to hear an individual’s bad chop job of Ice Ice Baby. While I appreciate your efforts to protect ourselves from ourselves we are still in the land of the free. As in freedom to do what we want within the laws that bind us. This case, however is a blatant attempt at capitalist extremism. Gruber says it best:
“Yes, this might have further antagonized Apple's already-contentious relationship with the music labels (and with the entertainment media conglomerates in general; cf. NBC), but the reason these relationships are rocky is that the executives running these companies are stubborn fools who are only willing to consider ways to keep things the way they were, and who hold their own customers in utter contempt. You can't reason with the masterminds behind "ringles".”
Guys, you’ve been blazing the trail and getting these old hats to see the future the way we want it. Why ruin the song with this dance? It seems like this took a significant more amount of logistics and infrastructure to put out ring tones than needed. So, let us do what we want with what we already have. If I feel like it is worth a buck I can just buy the ring tone. Take my dollar in that case, otherwise let me enjoy what those dollars already provided me.
business, legal, ringtonesКомментарии к сообщению:
http://theappleblog.com/2007/09/14/dont-be-a-jerk-about-ringtones/#comments - Details of $100 iPhone credit published
Last week after the announcement of the iPhone price drop, Steve Jobs posted an open letter to iPhone owners telling them they’d get a $100 in-store credit for being “early adopters.”
Apple has now posted the full details of exactly how to get that $100 credit. It involves text messaging and electronic access codes. How high tech of them.
iphone, store creditКомментарии к сообщению:
http://theappleblog.com/2007/09/14/details-of-100-iphone-credit-published/#comments - Thank you TAB sponsors
Thanks to this week’s sponsors for keeping the hamsters fed and the wheels turning:
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http://theappleblog.com/2007/09/14/thank-you-tab-sponsors/#comments - Apple, lay off the ringtones a bit
Putting aside my general feelings about how annoyed I am by the constant noise of ringtones in any public place, Apple is obviously free to offer any type of product they want.
What does it in for me, however, is that Apple is pushing their ringtone product at me when I don’t even own an iPhone.
In the iTunes store for every album that has any ringtones available for its songs it shows the little bell next to the songs I could purchase as a ringtone as well as an entire section in the sidebar dedicated to ringtones.
You could call it cross selling/marketing but I call it overcrowding and unnecessary. It wastes valuable screen space pushing a product I have absolutely no possible way of even using.
Maybe Apple is doing it in the hopes that some poor soul without an iPhone will accidentally purchase it thinking they can use it or maybe the marketing guru’s think a few 30 second loops of a song will make me buy an iPhone. I’m not sure. I am sure that I’d like a Preference option to turn off any and all traces of ringtones in the store though.
If they’re really looking to cross sell some things, maybe a more useful feature would be suggesting the movies and TV shows that certain songs by that artist include.
itunes, marketing, ringtonesКомментарии к сообщению:
http://theappleblog.com/2007/09/13/apple-lay-off-the-ringtones-a-bit/#comments - iTunes Store downloads unresponsive for almost 48 hours
For many users (myself included), downloading purchased songs from the iTunes store has been next to impossible.
This seems to be a widespread issue as well. Covering multiple countries such as the U.S., Germany, Canada, Sweden, and others, there are people who haven’t been able to download purchased songs for as long as 48 hours in some cases.
What seems to be happening is users place songs/albums in their cart and when they click to buy the items the store throws an error and clears the user’s cart of any songs. It turns out the songs have been purchased but just won’t download.
Apple’s typical response has been to do Store > Check for Purchases… to download the missing songs, but seems no one has had any luck with that.
The error that we troubled users have grown to love is simply:
Have you experienced these issues? Have you been able to get a non-canned response from Apple on the issue?
UPDATE: After over 24 hours (for me, personally) I am now able to download my purchased items from the iTunes store. I never received any sort of real explanation or even any status update saying anything was fixed. I just tried downloading them again and lucked out. Maybe they’ve got things back in working order.
error, itunesКомментарии к сообщению:
http://theappleblog.com/2007/09/12/itunes-store-downloads-unresponsive-for-almost-48-hours/#comments
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