Showing posts with label drm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drm. Show all posts
Friday, October 09, 2015

The eBook is dying. I'm the only person on earth who blames the DRM.

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My main workaround for eBook misery has been to buy from Google Play , strip the Adobe DRM , and store the ePub (really should be written EP...
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How data lock destroys the customer experience - Apple edition.

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But for FairPlay, I would not use iOS 9 audiobooks. I wouldn’t swear every time it loses its place. I wouldn’t be pissed at Apple. But for ...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

Fixing the iPad: Family share and iBooks

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It’s a geek consensus - the iPad is on its last legs. Mostly this is because it’s nuts to have both a single-user iPhone 6 and a single-use...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

Who killed American broadcast TV time-shifting -- and how did they do it?

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I’ve been gnawing on this story for a year or two, figuring that sooner or later a real journalist would solve the mystery for me. That hasn...
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Saturday, November 30, 2013

Android's curious advantage: lawbreaking made easy

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Remember when Apple made ads about ripping CDs? iTunes and the iPod made it elegantly easy [1]. The ads were coy but clear -- wink, wink ste...
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Saturday, July 27, 2013

My eBook misadventures. Not ready yet?

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After much thought, I decided to build my digital library on DRM-free EPUBs . That means buying from DRM-free sources like TidBITS, O'Re...
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Saturday, March 10, 2012

iCloud, iOS, and identity: The end of app sharing

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I don't think we'll actually get to DRM  RetinaLock (retinal enhancements enforce video DRM), but we are pretty much at the "P...
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Saturday, March 03, 2012

Apple's FairPlay DRM, subscriptions, and the cost of MLB At Bat

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Last year I bought MLB.com's At Bat for something like $10 or $15. Then it was an "App". That meant, based on Apple's Fair...
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Saturday, July 02, 2011

Why Apple's thunderbolt cables have inline computers ...

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Coverage of Apple's $50 thunderbolt "active cable" focuses on performance advantages  ... The technology inside Apple's ...
Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Bright side: Apple's computer for the rest of us

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It's not the best of times. Long Depression 2.0 grinds on . China is increasingly unsettled -- and it's sitting on one of history...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Where now for the iOS Borders eBook reader?

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Borders is in bankruptcy. Its future is quite uncertain. Of course the books we bought there are still good. The paper ones that is ... B...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

iPhone apps and the Philip Morris business model

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Once upon a time tobacco companies distributed abundant free samples. It's a good business model when you're selling an addictive pr...
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Sunday, November 21, 2010

The iPhone iAd framework and parental controls

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iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) come with parental controls. Android OS, interestingly, does not . This is rarely discussed [1]. Pare...
Saturday, September 11, 2010

Thunder in the Cloud: Lessons from my hacked Google Account

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It was just another week in the age of insecurity. Yet another low tech Windows-only trojan spread throughout American corporations, costing...
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Monday, August 16, 2010

Managing the Google-Apple war: keeping options open, expecting the Android bicycle computer

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The Google-Apple war continues , with a new front opening last week. The notorious Larry Ellison, close ally of the infamous Steve Jobs, ha...
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Sunday, July 04, 2010

Apple's iBookstore and a FairPlay DRM review

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I'd delayed updating to iTunes 9.2, but the upgrade seems to have gone well. I can now browse my "Protected book " (FairPl...
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Google TV, Flash, iPhone and Curated Computing - it's all about the DRM

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Imagine that Drexler's engines of creation were real. Imagine we all had devices that could make diamonds, phones, cars and the like o...
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Friday, April 30, 2010

Stross on the post-PC world – mostly right

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Charles Stross is in good form with an essay on the post-PC world . It’s the world we’ve been expecting since Netscape Constellation (1996) ...
Saturday, January 09, 2010

How removing my car stereo gave me my Apple iSlate prediction

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[Update: iPad is the name. My post-release verdict is even more flamboyant .] Geeks are all tingly in the run up to Steve Jobs' iSlate/i...
Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Personal computing 2020: More and less

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OpenDoc was ambitious (emphases mine) .... OpenDoc was a multi-platform software componentry framework standard for compound documents , in...