Comments on: Yes, I swing both ways. Please stop discriminating.

By: Darrel Austin

Darrel Austin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:32:46 +0000

Eric:

While that might be exactly the issue, it’s a silly restriction. Since when does a Mac care what format the hard drive is in? ;0)

Either way, it may be moot. I think I’m retiring iPhoto soon and switching to Picasa.

By: Eric Marden

Eric Marden — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:17:59 +0000

The reason you can’t sync iPhoto is because requires your iPod to be mac formatted, which your windows iTunes can’t read/write to.

By: Darrel

Darrel — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:40:10 +0000

I’d say it’s definitely an off-shoot/side effect of DRM demands. I imagine the main issue is that they don’t want you walking around hooking your iPod to all of your friend’s computers and ‘borrowing’ their music.

Yep, DRM is dumb, but I can appreciate the fact that Apple has been forced to enact such measures to please the RIAA gods.

What I don’t get is why I can’t sync iPhoto separately. I’m not aware of too many folks buying DRMed photos for their iPods. It’s all snapshots of the kids and vacation photos. Why would apple forbid that?

Maybe I am a very small minority…the dual OSer, but discrimination is discrimination, damnit! ;0)

Anyone dual boot the new iPods? Maybe I can find a 3rd party app and sync my photos with a linux partition. Uber geeky! “Yea, let me show you pic’s of the kids…hold on, I just have to reboot my iPod…”

By: Garrick Van Buren

Garrick Van Buren — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:19:33 +0000

All of these examples are subtler forms of DRM and need to go away. These days, I prefer to not use Adobe and I’m continually tracking alternatives to iTunes.