The Case For Apple Buying Facebook 255
The article makes the case that Jobs has been hinting that he wants to actually spend some of the $51 billion Apple has been sitting on, and that Facebook is a likely candidate. Considering how thin the Ping social network is, and the integration issues the two companies have had, there are some good reasons for such a deal. And a heck of a lot of reasons why not.
The perfect investor would be... (Score:1, Informative)
the CIA. Question is how do they cover their tracks?
Re:That's Would Be Too Bad (Score:2, Informative)
You do realize you can turn off "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" and "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library", correct?
I believe if you turn off both of those, your issues of rearranging and duplicating your collection would be gone. Yes, those are "Advanced" options, since they're likely not what most people want.
Re:Yep.. (Score:3, Informative)
Indeed. For example, Apple likes to require credit card info for iTunes store membership, even before you agree to buy something from them.
You can sign up for an iTunes account by choosing the "no payment method" option. If you decide to buy something, you can buy an iTunes card at a convenience store, use paypal or use a prepaid credit card. You don't need to use your own address with a prepaid card, just a valid one.
Re:Not that stupid (Score:4, Informative)
Re:That's Would Be Too Bad (Score:3, Informative)
Yes, I do realize that and, eight years ago, when I first tried iTunes, I did just that. My media collection was still borked and I had to clean i up manually. Then I tried getting iTunes to play anything other than it's own proprietary format and, back then, it wouldn't.
See, dude, this is just a lie, which makes me think the rest of your post might be as well. iTunes has always played plain old MP3s, AIFFs, and WAVs, since it was introduced, and with plugins it will play OGG formats since at least 2003 (I have iTunes OGGs imported from then). There is NO SUCH THING as an iTunes proprietary format, certainly not in 2002. To top it off, there wasn't even a Windows version of iTunes until 2004, and it had WMA to AAC conversion. So I'm sorry, but I call bullshit on your story.