Comments on: Apple Promoting Business Podcasting http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/05/03/apple-promoting-business-podcasting/ any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:37:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Mark Federman http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/05/03/apple-promoting-business-podcasting/#comment-2465 Mark Federman Fri, 05 May 2006 17:54:31 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/05/03/apple-promoting-business-podcasting/#comment-2465 As a slight tangent, this is precisely why the so-called iTunes University - Apple-brand podcasts of university lectures - is a bad, bad, bad idea. Imagine the type of open knowledge that (allegedly) occurs at institutions of higher learning being subject to the Apple Tax - requiring Apple-branded players, and subject to Apple-locked DRM. For that matter, imagine your business beholden to the Apple Tax (like it probably now is to the Microsoft Tax). Yet with the MS Tax, open source alternatives are emerging to help one avoid the lock-in. With various TPM initiatives, and the WIPO Railroad coming to take away our collective creativity, the Apple Tax may not be so easily avoided if your employees want to download, and listen to, the interminable, if not inevitable, "all hands" yak-fest. As a slight tangent, this is precisely why the so-called iTunes University - Apple-brand podcasts of university lectures - is a bad, bad, bad idea. Imagine the type of open knowledge that (allegedly) occurs at institutions of higher learning being subject to the Apple Tax - requiring Apple-branded players, and subject to Apple-locked DRM.

For that matter, imagine your business beholden to the Apple Tax (like it probably now is to the Microsoft Tax). Yet with the MS Tax, open source alternatives are emerging to help one avoid the lock-in. With various TPM initiatives, and the WIPO Railroad coming to take away our collective creativity, the Apple Tax may not be so easily avoided if your employees want to download, and listen to, the interminable, if not inevitable, “all hands” yak-fest.

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