I can tell you that I have not really had any difficulty living in this world, where digital music players are incompatible, tethered to proprietary music download services. Apple’s FairPlay DRM is really not so odious as some might think. So long as you don’t feel that a Microsoft Zune must connect to iTunes, or […]

Up till now, Apple Inc. has been the 800-pound gorilla when it comes to digital music, which means they are also the gatekeeper to the most-used digital rights management technology for legal downloads on the planet. What this means is that lots of competitors and even some European countries are complaining that Apple has locked […]

The Steve Jobs keynote is over, and you’ll be able to read what’s going on at lots of Mac Web sites, so I want to do something different, and that is to provide instant analysis on some of the information you’ll be hearing about. You may think that’s a little irresponsible, but consider that the […]

With all the pretenders to the iPod throne clearly failing, and the Zune may join the list unless sales pick up big time real soon, you wonder if Apple can continue to float along as it has, resting on its laurels. To be sure, the latest updates to the iPod line were mostly cosmetic and […]