I have an iPod that I love and I can see maybe getting an iPhone, but an iPad? :/ Not so much.

Is DRM something iTunes likes? I've never encountered it. I use almost exclusively Winamp and WMP

DRM is on the out. It was only introduced because music companies insisted on it before they would sign up to the iTunes store. A lot of the major labels have already ditched it. Give it a few years and it'll be history. The future of music is free!

The future of concerts is fucking expensive http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/frown.gif

DRM= Digital Rights Management. This applies to any digital based property. In the video gaming department it's becoming a big problem. Ubisoft is now requiring the playing their games even in solo mode requires an active internet connection.

Maybe in Europe, maybe things are improving regarding music, but with video gaming I disagree.

you disagree with DRM or with illegal distribution?

I disagree that DRM is on the way out. If anything it is accelerating in the games department.

It's only on the way out in the music industry. I'd agree that with gaming, they're increasing the security all the time.

Luckily the game industry can only move as fast as the hackers who have already cracked it http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/biggrin.gif

The game industry also makes staggeringly huge profits these days, I have little sympathy.

Yes, only steal from corporations boys and girls.

The internet is gloriously democratic. And the people are speaking: generally people do not want to pay for music and software.

People are being successful online these days by making money in other ways.

People, generally speaking, don't want to pay for anything.

But in the real world they realise what they are doing is wrong. On the internet, it's fine as long as you hide behind some warped ethics.

warped ethics? Don't know if I agree with that.

The internet is bringing a massive change to our culture and how we receive it. Now more and more people are doing things on their own, making their own software, making their own music, and releasing it online under Creative Commons licenses. No longer will our culture be dictated to us by corporations based on how much profit they can make from it.

Time to embrace the future http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif

If that's the future, I'm going to Tian'anmen Square for a picnic.

That's all fine and good, but we don't live in a communist society, someone, somewhere has to pay for this.

So you're happy that culture is dictated by corporations for profit? Think of all the great culture they've kept from us because they don't think they'll make money from it.

the internet has changed the economic model for our culture. It's being paid for, those embracing the future are making money by doing so, it's just the new economy won't support the large corporations. Their time has come.

and by the way, what on earth has communism got to do with it???

The iPad?
 

Is this to combat the Kindle or something? why would u want as huge touch flat screen? can we say easy chance to get broken? I think the i compaign should but shot... iMac, iPhone, iPod, iShuffle Ipad, iSuck? When does a phone stop being a phone and lose it's identity?

The iPad is aimed at laptop users who just use their laptops or netbooks to surf the web etc.

Basically netbooks are utter crap: tiny screens, minuscule keyboards, low on speed and RAM so really clunky to use. The alternative is buying a full-blown laptop which for most people is totally unnecessary. That's where the iPad comes in: you use email and the web, photos, videos etc, but don't want to shell out for a fully featured laptop which they'll barely use.

I'm still waiting to get my hands on one, but a friend of mine got his and said that surfing the web on the iPad is the best user experience you can imagine - it beats desktops and laptops hands down, apparently.

I will die before I have an iPad in my living room.

Charlie Broker did a good article on how stupid aspects of it are: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...harlie-brooker
You're required to use iTunes during the setup process, which is like being forced to eat a handful of mud. Stephen Fry made a crap video on how good it is. Of course, it's a flash video - so you can't watch it on the iPad.