Yes, I swing both ways. Please stop discriminating.
I admit it, I fool around with more than one partner. Sometimes it’s in my basement just us two together alone.
Sometimes it’s in public. Sneaking a date at the coffee shop.
And sometimes it’s even at work under the harsh flourescent lighting.
I can’t help it. It’s just who I am, and so, I ask–nay, PLEAD–that you all stop discriminating against folks like me.
I’m looking at you, Adobe, who will gladly let me install software on two machines (appreciated!) but refuse to acknowledge that a good chunk of your users are bi-OSuals. Some of us have been known to even tangle with that Linux once in a while. Yes, I know, you can get an extra licensing fee from us by refusing to allow it, but all you’re really doing is driving us to clandestine open source brothels where we can get a quick fix of software without jumping through registration hoops.
And Apple. Apple, apple, apple… I can’t believe even you would stoop to this level. You even allow Windows on your own machines. A little hypocritical giving your stance on who your iPods can date, eh? I have a 160gb iPod. I’d like to put my music on it. I’d like to put my photos on it. iTunes on my PC. iPhoto on my Mac. Not allowed, huh? What, are we living in the 50s still? Are you still hung up on inter-OSual dating? What gives? I’m rather disgusted by your OSist prejudices, Apple. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
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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.
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…”
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.
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.