Hopeless Geek

In the same pen-stroke as the author of The Audio War writes:

Apple is making corporate enemies by refusing to license FairPlay.

He also writes:

Except Hewlett-Packard (which has an agreement to sell HP-branded iPods) and Motorola (which plans to launch phones compatible with songs from Apple’s iTunes Music Store).

Make up your mind. Either they’re not cooperating or they’re not cooperating with the people you want them to. There is a huge-ass difference between the two. Apple seems to want a dead-end, no transfer device that only works with iTMS. If that’s what they want, make it and offer it to them. They are, contrary to the opinion of self-important “digital rights activists”, under no obligation to license FairPlay to anyone that is willing to cough up cash. This isn’t Microsoft, the literal whore of the software world, willing to sell itself out for any penny you have under the couch (and then find a way to take the couch once you’re “in”). This is Apple, for which there is no phrase that consistently fits these days other than “Holy shit, look at the stock today!”