Steve Wozniak gives jailbreaking the thumbs up, wishes iTunes supported Android

Re:Steve Wozniak gives jailbreaking the thumbs up, wishes iT... by fredley on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @04:46AM (#4601100)

iTunes supporting Android would be great for Apple. Unfortunately, it would also be good for Google, so it's never going to happen.

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Re:Steve Wozniak gives jailbreaking the thumbs up, wishes iT... by ZoFreX on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @05:23AM (#4601201)

It would be great partially because the existing sync solutions for Android are all a little bit wonky. I don't think it would necessarily be great for Apple, though - I'm considering purchasing an iPod to listen to music on to get that better integration, and releasing iTunes for Android would commoditize the listening device - exactly what a shiny hardware manufacturer does not want.

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Re:Steve Wozniak gives jailbreaking the thumbs up, wishes iT... by CrazedGeek on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @09:00AM (#4601676)

"It would be great partially because the existing sync solutions for Android are all a little bit wonky."

Eh? Winamp, DoubleTwist, Spotify, and even Windows Media Player all sync flawlessly, and Google Play Music and Android Cloud Player work great, too.

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Re:Steve Wozniak gives jailbreaking the thumbs up, wishes iT... by ZoFreX on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @09:39PM (#4605369)

Winamp was OK but crashed a little too often for me to be able to rely on it. DoubleTwist is, hands down, the worst music software I have installed on my laptop in recent memory (I can expand on this if you want, but my overall summary is: terrible). I hadn't tried WMP or Android Cloud Player, and at the time Google Music wasn't available to me. Spotify I haven't tried yet because until today, I couldn't even get it to see my phone despite my laptop and phone being on the same wireless network, as per the instructions. It has finally shown up though so I will give that a go.

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Re:Steve Wozniak gives jailbreaking the thumbs up, wishes iT... by coopdog on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @07:28AM (#4601470)

Funny, one of the biggest reasons I moved to android was precisely to escape itunes

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Re:Steve Wozniak gives jailbreaking the thumbs up, wishes iT... by mariusc on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @04:51AM (#4601113)

iTunes supporting Android would be great for all Android users. iTunes is a great market with excellent apps which are not ported for Android.Unfortunately,like you said,Google will never allow this.

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Re:Steve Wozniak gives jailbreaking the thumbs up, wishes iT... by fredley on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @04:53AM (#4601117)

I was thinking more for a music point of view. How many users could Apple win over into the ecosystem just by letting you sync your iTunes library with your Android phone? I'm thinking a lot.

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Re:Steve Wozniak gives jailbreaking the thumbs up, wishes iT... by fluidcruft on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @09:13AM (#4601739)

I don't know. Can I buy music from iTunes without installing some bullshit beachhead on my computer for Apple to push QuickSlime and Slowfari onto me?

Amazon MP3 works flawlessly. Who needs iTunes?

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Re:Steve Wozniak gives jailbreaking the thumbs up, wishes iT... by fpgeek on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @05:46AM (#4601265)

I'm sure that, to Apple, the more relevant question is: How many iOS device users would they lose by letting you sync iTunes library with your Android phone?

I'd guess a lot, but even if that's wrong, it takes hundreds of incremental music sales to offset the loss of just one iPhone sale.

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