Comments on: After the Macworld Keynote http://themoderatevoice.com/25466/after-the-macworld-keynote/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Mon, 28 May 2012 19:35:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: GreenDreams http://themoderatevoice.com/25466/after-the-macworld-keynote/comment-page-1/#comment-168705 GreenDreams Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:39:18 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/25466/after-the-macworld-keynote/#comment-168705 RIP DRM. It was always a stupid idea and has killed some cool technology. My favorite example was the minidisc. Sony should have learned, as "Beta-maxed" was already in use as a term to describe how a superior technology gets trounced by an open platform. (Sony tried the same restriction scheme iTunes used, allowing you to have music on your minidisc only if it remained on your computer, and only allowing you to put the same song on 3 discs.)<br><br>As for DRM, tech savvy kids knew you could play a DRM audio from your iPod and capture the song with sound card capture freeware. No more DRM. RIP DRM. It was always a stupid idea and has killed some cool technology. My favorite example was the minidisc. Sony should have learned, as “Beta-maxed” was already in use as a term to describe how a superior technology gets trounced by an open platform. (Sony tried the same restriction scheme iTunes used, allowing you to have music on your minidisc only if it remained on your computer, and only allowing you to put the same song on 3 discs.)

As for DRM, tech savvy kids knew you could play a DRM audio from your iPod and capture the song with sound card capture freeware. No more DRM.

]]> By: archangel http://themoderatevoice.com/25466/after-the-macworld-keynote/comment-page-1/#comment-168672 archangel Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:39:15 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/25466/after-the-macworld-keynote/#comment-168672 the move of apple away from mac world is a business decision, I think. It is massively expensive to shlep all that stuff there pay stevbadores rates to pack and unpack, to pay the huge display fees, not to mention airfares and hotels, et al, for the dozens or hundreds... and meanwhile no work being done by priincipals back at 'office.' <br><br>Book Expo America suffered a similar blow about ten years ago when many if not most of the big NY book publishers either dramatically downsized their often block-wide booths to little consiolidated kiosks at the show, or else suddenly declined to come at all.. and have continued to not have a prescence at book expo to this day. They were Shifting the significant amount of money spent in promo elsewhere. Market had changed form thousands of indie bookstores to huge chain bookstores, so it wasnt mary and juan and moishe from these smallish niche bookstores who were shopping the humongous Expo aisles in forthcoming books anymore (book expo: thousands of publishers form all over the world convene once a year; conferees used to be about 45,000 people per show, buying, selling, do ing foreign rights, etc) . Book expo goes on each year nonetheless, as I imagine macworld will as well.. <br><br>But, It is the end of an era in so many venerable iconic institutions nowadays. We'll see what will come next. <br><br>dr.e the move of apple away from mac world is a business decision, I think. It is massively expensive to shlep all that stuff there pay stevbadores rates to pack and unpack, to pay the huge display fees, not to mention airfares and hotels, et al, for the dozens or hundreds… and meanwhile no work being done by priincipals back at 'office.'

Book Expo America suffered a similar blow about ten years ago when many if not most of the big NY book publishers either dramatically downsized their often block-wide booths to little consiolidated kiosks at the show, or else suddenly declined to come at all.. and have continued to not have a prescence at book expo to this day. They were Shifting the significant amount of money spent in promo elsewhere. Market had changed form thousands of indie bookstores to huge chain bookstores, so it wasnt mary and juan and moishe from these smallish niche bookstores who were shopping the humongous Expo aisles in forthcoming books anymore (book expo: thousands of publishers form all over the world convene once a year; conferees used to be about 45,000 people per show, buying, selling, do ing foreign rights, etc) . Book expo goes on each year nonetheless, as I imagine macworld will as well..

But, It is the end of an era in so many venerable iconic institutions nowadays. We'll see what will come next.

dr.e

]]> By: bassboat http://themoderatevoice.com/25466/after-the-macworld-keynote/comment-page-1/#comment-168670 bassboat Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:04:04 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/25466/after-the-macworld-keynote/#comment-168670 Imovie Randy is to cool as Caroline is to you know. Imovie Randy is to cool as Caroline is to you know.

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