Apple. The reason I hate on this company so hard is not because of the mac operating system – it is because I always seem to see them involved in retarded shit to do with music.

First thing:

You want to buy some music off iTunes because the mint chicks are offering a free track with all iTunes downloads. Problem: You can’t go to their site because you don’t have iTunes. Solution: install iTunes. Problem #2: You run Linux. Solution: I guess you’d have to use someone else’s computer.

Second thing:

You want to download the highest possible quality version of a digital download. Apple offers you VBR m4a. I hope you can read this text over the brass fanfare that is definitely blasting through your windows about now. They don’t even offer Apple’s lossless format. This is fucking bullshit.

Third thing

Trying to sue Linux developers who are trying to help out Linux kids who want to use iPods and shit, but don’t want to have to try to use iTunes with WINE or anything. PCWorld wrote an article covering a bit of this. Apple are trying to sue some dude over a discussion (that’s right, talking) he had on some forum about trying to reverse-engineer Apple’s new checksum mechanism for the open-source community.

LEAVE THE GEEKS ALONE, APPLE. LEAVE THEM TO ME.

Too bad I didn’t write about this when all of you kids weren’t heading for the hills to avoid becoming zombies. I guess that’s just life, though. Do you like the new comment titles?

Written by: Zach.
Tags: apple, linux, music, open source.