Comments on: Holy Cats! There is a DRM chip inside the iPod Shuffle earbuds! [Update]

By: Ariel Goldblattstt

Ariel Goldblattstt — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:10:14 +0000

Hmmm… Reminds me on the 10NES chip inside the NES.

By: Apple’s Gone Too Far: Bans Terrorism Via iTunes « Plankhead

Apple’s Gone Too Far: Bans Terrorism Via iTunes « Plankhead — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:47:51 +0000

[...] came along, with its endless censorship and anti-competitive practices in the App Store, and quite literal Digital Rights Manufacturing in the iPod Shuffle. But even then, I still liked Apple. But now Failblog exposes how their [...]

By: PinheadX

PinheadX — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:43:25 +0000

Monopolies aren’t illegal. Abuse of monopoly power is illegal. You can buy any other MP3 player from any other manufacturer and use it with (almost) any operating system. There is nothing that makes you buy an Apple product, and Apple isn’t abusing their power to make their vendors only develop for them.

The reason Microsoft got in trouble was because they were penalizing computer manufacturers if they wanted to put another OS on their machines along with Windows, or if they wanted to put a different browser than IE on the machine as the default browser. This was seen as an abuse of their monopoly.

I have a monopoly on art and motion graphics made by me. Nobody can make art by me except me. It’s called a natural monopoly. Apple has a monopoly on iPods. It’s not an illegal monopoly, because it’s not a monopoly on MP3 players.

too bad more people don’t understand this.

By: jim

jim — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:01:49 +0000

dude this thing sucks, i bought it thinking i could just by a cheap in line controler and use better headphones. But NO apple had to be gay and force you into using their headphones. WTF

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:12:08 +0000

I took one look at the ad and swore I’d never buy one of these. It’s not about $300 headphones. It’s about buying a replacement earphone any where, any time. Try finding an Apple product in a small town in an emergency. I’ve owned half a dozen of these fool things and one drop of the earphone and it’s toast. I’m a truck driver and these things always seem to break in weird little towns at odd times of the day when electronics stores aren’t open – and places where a big truck won’t fit. This is not smart to be locked into a very expensive headphone on a cheap device.

By: Phil E. Drifter

Phil E. Drifter — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:04:58 +0000

Um…all you people bitching and bashing apple: WHO THE FUCK LISTENS TO DRM-PROTECTED MP3S?

By: the green bastard

the green bastard — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:53:03 +0000

Hardly a surprise, nor an exclusively Apple phenomenon. It’s just the American way of doing business – find a market, infiltrate it and expand to dominate it, crushing all competitors. It works very well in the USA where it is the accepted way of conducting business, but not so well in other countries which is why Microsoft constantly pay hundreds millions of dollars in fines for flouting anti-monopoly laws in Europe. Apple will go down the same path eventually, they’re on thin ice as it is with the iPhone and iTunes.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:52:59 +0000

“You can use ANY HEADPHONES with the Shuffle, you just can’t pause or change volume. It starts playing immediately, which is kind of what you’d expect from an MP3 player with no buttons.”

I honestly don’t think I would call something that you plug headphones into, and it just starts playing, not being able to change the volume or songs, and MP3 player. I personally don’t want to have to buy a 3rd party (or even a first party) fix to such a dumb mechanic to have a workable mp3 player. Get off your high horse, I would be just as annoyed if microsoft or any other company put out something this horribly though out.

By: Nowinki » Longshot Rumor: iPod Shuffle’s “DRM Chip” is a Microphone

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:33:47 +0000

[...] Enraged commenters even thought the custom control chip in the headphone remote was some kind of nasty Apple DRM lock-in. But a new rumor is just surfacing that points us in a new–and far more [...]

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:59:14 +0000

It was nice to hear this CrunchGear article discussed on the Linux Outlaws podcast at around minute 54:00 – http://linuxoutlaws.com/podcast/82

By: DeltaT

DeltaT — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:40:07 +0000

more accurate info about this:

http://www.derekunderwood.com/general-computer/new-ipod-does-not-have-new-drm-technology/

By: _makio_

_makio_ — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:26:42 +0000

haha yeah, I have musicians trying to convince me that apples are better than pcs for basic uses like word processing and web browsing…

in terms of media players, apple have most of the market, with the zune basically being the only viable competition (which i can’t buy in oz). I believe this is only because of their marketing and lack of enthusiasm by other companies.

just my thoughts…

By: Aranea

Aranea — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:46:32 +0000

What the fans do is called “double think” in the terms of 1984 -the novel-. You can convince yourself to anything if you try hard enough.

By: iPod shuffle earphones have hidden DRM chip | Electricpig.co.uk

iPod shuffle earphones have hidden DRM chip | Electricpig.co.uk — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:29:09 +0000

[...] Now | £59 | Apple (Via CrunchGear) (Available at Apple) Related storiesThird party iPod shuffle earphones incomingFive concerns [...]

By: Priorities « imnotbored.net

Priorities « imnotbored.net — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:00:11 +0000

[...] in the iPod Shuffle (see TechCrunch) and maybe Copy&Pase in iPhone 3.0 (see Andrew Nusca). [...]

By: New iPod Shuffle locks out Unapproved Accessories | Gadget Wisdom

New iPod Shuffle locks out Unapproved Accessories | Gadget Wisdom — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:13:57 +0000

[...] Holy Cats! There is a DRM chip inside the iPod Shuffle earbuds! [Update] (crunchgear.com) [...]

By: Raju Alluri’s Personal Blog » Blog Archive » Apple, DRM and the hype

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:08:37 +0000

[...] leads to news. The new 3G Shuffle attracted lot of press over the weekend, mostly due to this magic chip number “8a83e3″. People thought it is DRM, but it is more likely a volume control tool. DRM or no-DRM, the size of [...]

By: Tacoby

Tacoby — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:54:08 +0000

Techcrunch has reached a new low. You guys are close to becoming a lot like Cnet. Are you seriously saying that Apple has *no right* to protect *their* R&D investment?

By: Latest iPod Suggests that Apple Still Loves DMCA-Assisted Lock-in | The-Informer

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:52:47 +0000

[...] the controls are on the included headphones. And if these folks are right (and there seem to be some doubts), the new shuffles won’t work with the remote controls of any existing third-party [...]

By: Click World News » Blog Archive » Latest iPod Suggests that Apple Still Loves DMCA-Assisted Lock-in

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:06:44 +0000