From my perspective, Fox is "that funny little network that managed to get some pipsqueak UHF" TV signals a few years back.
Apple is that "other" lind of computers that has that "funny hidden file structure and spends half its power on hiding its function from the user".
Music "access portals" like itunes or Pandora are born dead, as far I'm concerned.
At every age I've ever been, and I'm now 49 it's ALWAYS been about the marketing and SELLING me something
that has been "picked" for me to like.
I STILL don't need this function. I need the music industry to make a greater selection of music more available, and
provide the hassle-free and secure feeling that comes from buying a product on media proven reliable over many decades.
A purchased piece of vinyl never takes over part of your bandwidth or tries overtly to drag you to some particular location
for more music purchases and "analysis" of your habits.
My every fleeting brush with itunes has been annoying to the extreme.
I've been far too involved in my own music procurement and management over the years to pay some company to
pretend it's looking out for my interests.
Too much like what it would be if organized crime were running the only record shop which somehow miraculously stayed in existence. Even if it HAD what I wanted, I'd find some other way to get it. And if I DID have to purchase
"audio" I would use an Apple device to play the file, re-record the audio into a new file, obtaining a "cleaned" mp3 file,
that would not drag along a mountain of data and associations intended to support a particular marketer of audio
and "audio systems", that don't even incorporate radios into them.
Maybe if Apple had become the one computer company that found a way to make AM radio work IN a computer,
I'd have a completely different opinion.
