Ringtone Rip-off

by Simon Hilton on Sun 09 Sep 2007


Steve Jobs has just announced that iTunes will include a ringtone editor which allows you to make ringtones from your songs in iTunes to download and use on your new iPhone.
Only trouble is.. each ringtone you make will cost you an ADDITIONAL 99 cents!
Sorry.. did I miss the point of buying a song in the first place?
Why on Earth should anybody be expected to pay for a song TWICE?
Especially when you can go and edit your song in Quicktime or Garage Band for FREE!
Surely someone as foresighted as Steve Jobs must see this as a shot in the foot.
VERY uncool.

The ker-ching ker-ching one-click Wi-Fi iTunes music store for the rather diminutively drived iPod Touch also brought up a furball…

And why Safari but no email on the iPod?

In fact, why bother with wifi apart from to sell me more stuff i dont want on a gadget i dont need?

Cant I just have a nice fat widescreen 160GB iPod instead please?

Or.. maybe put my larger iTunes library on a firewire drive attached to my Airport (also attached to the Hi-Fi), and use the iPod as a controller for the larger library..like a kind of universal remote for the Hi-Fi with tunes included. Now THAT would be cool.
gah gah gccchhhhhhhh

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  • Istvanski
    I've only ever bought one album from iTunes and that in itself turned out to be a mistake. iTunes and iPods' popularity could start to diminish unless they take a good hard look at themselves, re; rip-offs and strict copy-protection issues. I could harp on and on about this, but there's no need.
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