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APPLE!?!?!?!

EliteABombAZ

Jun 29, 2009, 8:47 AM
Are you serious? They gave in to complying with an industry standard? They usually resist these types of things and do their own thing. Besides... they have such a monopoly over the 30-pin connector.... I am surprised they have agreed to switch!
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Overmann

Jun 29, 2009, 9:12 AM
Big ginormous pins are so last season.
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iori276

Jun 29, 2009, 9:42 AM
and plus you wont have to buy anymore chargers when thinking of "switching" to apple phones! 😛
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jskrenes

Jun 29, 2009, 10:31 AM
iori276 said:
and plus you wont have to buy anymore chargers when thinking of "switching" to apple phones! 😛


AND Apple can charge $30 for a 30-pin to micro USB adapter for those of you who just bought a new iPhone. But don't worry, you can whine about how 'loyal' of an Apple/ATT customer you are and that you are somehow magically entitled to not pay anything because you camp out for weeks for this stuff, and then Apple will cave in and give you an iTunes credit...
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bluecoyote

Jun 29, 2009, 2:20 PM
I know right!??? Who would have thought the first computer company to offer widespread adoption of the USB standard, Bluetooth, Webkit, and DRM-free music in a freely licensed format would ever agree to an industry standard!???

Now if Apple would just convert iTunes to the industry standard WMA format like Verizon, Sprint, and everyone else uses 🤣
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HumanStudios

Jun 29, 2009, 5:01 PM
Industry standard WMA format? Last time I checked, MP3 was the standard, not the proprietary WMA...
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en102

Jun 29, 2009, 6:02 PM
Right: WMA = Windows (aka Microsoft) Media Audio.

Not that I agree with typical wiki, but:

MP3 - It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, as well as a de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on digital audio players.
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HumanStudios

Jun 29, 2009, 9:25 PM
Yeah, that's what I thought. Not that I'm trying to play up apple (though I'm an avid apple product user when it doesn't involve AT&T). I just know that wma isn't the standard, and in fact, I can't remember, but isn't wma slightly lower quality? I at least didn't care for the type of dither used (if any) with windows media, but that was years ago, maybe it's improved. I still dig 256 kbps mp3 currently. Or Aiff files. Haha.
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bluecoyote

Jun 29, 2009, 10:22 PM
Bluecoyote was being sarcastic!
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HumanStudios

Jun 29, 2009, 10:37 PM
Well... Oops... :-P
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