VANITY: Has anyone checked out Apple's Web-Page (BARF ALERT)

http://www.apple.com ^

[Snoopers-868th]

Take your BARF bag!!

[Swordmaker]

Shouldn’t the Al Gore stuff be posted in the Refurb section of the site?

I think the "Discount" section would be more appropriate... you can discount everything Al Gore says on Global Warming...

[SlowBoat407]

Geez, talk about bloatware.

[cyborg]

I must have missed it. I see Steve Job’s answer to the Newton though. BTW, Gore still looks old, fat and full of bitterness. Perhaps he’ll feel better now that he’s back in the spotlight.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for posting that.

[claudiustg]

I make my living supporting Macintosh computers and I’m going to be buying a MacBook Pro as soon as 10.5 is announced, but I was deeply offended to see Al Gore on the main page. The gushing was very disturbing. When will these people wake up from that Imagine moment and stop spreading their no religion, no countries poison?

To Steve Jobs I say: Your genius and your computer company have enriched our country and the world, not your politics. Apple should be above pushing a political and social agenda. Unless of course, it is pro-gun, pro-Israel, anti-amnesty, close the border common sense! :^)

[Shimmer]

http://www.woot.com/
Here. They have the Zune on sale today. Buy one, leaves more ipods for the rest of us.

[steve-b]

Remember when it was liberals who spent every waking hour searching high and low for things to be offended by?

[Sunnyflorida]

http://www.rainbowpush.org/economiclit/automotive.html#45companies

[MrsEmmaPeel]

What are you talking about? apple.com shows the nano. I don't see anything else. Ok.. I loaded it again. I now see the iPod touch.

You're offended with that?

[word_warrior_bob]

Apple CONTINUALLY sticks a sharp stick in the eye of half of it’s current and potential customers. Does Steve Jobs think this is a good business strategy? No, he knows it isn’t but lets his warped politics dictate marketing, the STOCKHOLDERS should bombard him with this message no matter if they are R’s or D’s.

I have all Apple everything and I see apple’s message to me as you like our stuff but we hate you, can’t you see you’re an idiot? convert into the masses, get an earring, a tattoo, maybe grown one of those “intellectual” beards.

[Amadeo]

I didn’t see nada.

Gore uses Macs.

So do Dubya and Rove. So do I.

No hu hu.

[cowboyway]

I've loaded it 4 times and haven't seen AlGore yet.

He must be scared to pop up on my screen.

[cowboyway]

So do Dubya and Rove. So do I.

So do me and Rush.

[word_warrior_bob]

I didn’t see nada.

Gore uses Macs.

So do Dubya and Rove. So do I.

No hu hu

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So do I.

Apple constantly uses anti-Republican, pro-Democrat, hippie, multicultural utopia nonsense. The iphone ads featured the cover of the NY Times with Pelosi celebrating control of congress.

[Amadeo]

Yes. Apple is contaminated with liberalism. But my Dell has cobwebs on it and my 4 Macs keep my business running. The Intel Macs run Windoze just fine too on the very rare occasions a need it.

It’s like eating a spoon of mustard on an ice cream cone. The awful taste doesn’t last too long and the treat is wonderful and satisfying, completely overpowering the memory of that bad politically correct moo-tard.

Can’t wait for Leopard, Microsoft Office 2008 and Iphone 2. All the new Christmas software, gadgets and accdessories. Need more Apple stock and don’t care what it cost. My brand new shiny iPod Touch is a joy and Apple is draining a fortune out of me for iTunes songs, movies and books. Can’t get products like this anywhere else.

[Hyzenthlay]

Yes, well Zunes put DRM (anti-theft) technology on all of it’s songs that prevents the user from freely sharing their music. Well, it’s perfectly legal unless the artist has copyrighted their music under a creative commons license, which means the music is free to download and share as the user desires. Embedding this DRM metadata into a song that is copyrighted under a creative commons license violates the terms of this license, and is illegal. So Microsoft, while trying to stop other people from doing illegal things that violate copyright licenses, is doing illegal things that violate copyright licenses itself. That’s why I’m never getting a Zune, and telling everyone who’s thinking about getting one about this problem.

[Hyzenthlay]

Windoze = awesome nickname. I prefer Microsloth, though, taken from a sci-fi story I read somewhere.

[Fan of Fiat]

That’s why I’m never getting a Zune, and telling everyone who’s thinking about getting one about this problem

Hate to break it to you, but I have a Zune, and every single one of the 3600 songs on it are MP3 DRM free.

Songs that are sent wifi are not DRM'd either. The software prevents play after the 3 day 3 play limitation passes, but does not actually DRM the song. You can easily pull it off the Zune unprotected, you just need to tweak your computer to recognize the zune as a hard drive.

Where did you get your info that they DRM all music? The facts are readily available.

[Fan of Fiat]

So Microsoft, while trying to stop other people from doing illegal things that violate copyright licenses, is doing illegal things that violate copyright licenses itself. That’s why I’m never getting a Zune,

Really?

[Hyzenthlay]

I looked at the articles I had read about it and it appears that it was originally reported on Forbes, and I recall hearing about it on Slashdot as well. Apparently the DRM comes in the form of the 3 days/3 plays rule, and the inability of users to shared music that has been shared to them. Some later articles did report the ability to use the Zune as an external drive - the one nice thing sabout Microsoft is that their stuff is so much more hackable than Apple’s products.