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Re:Wozniak calls for open Apple by jiggy2011 on Monday May 14, 2012 @11:59PM (#3974810)
Dragging something onto a removable disk is hoop jumping?
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Re:Wozniak calls for open Apple by userdeveloper on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @12:19AM (#3974865)
The hoop is not using the software. The hoop is having to install the software.

Why can't the iPod work without iTunes? (It can, but only with a lot of work.)

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Re:Wozniak calls for open Apple by jiggy2011 on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @12:52AM (#3974957)
IIRC correctly most of the older MP3 players didn't need any software beyond what was built into Windows. Of course this was the era of Windows 95/98 so how well that worked overall it's difficult to say.
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Re:Wozniak calls for open Apple by pessimizer on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @10:20AM (#3976663)
And most of the current mp3 players, as far as I know. iPods are the broken ones.
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