A feature of OSX that is great is individual secure user accounts, it really comes into play when you plug in your iPod, all YOUR contact, calendar, notes, music, videos are downloaded exclusively to that iPod, your sister has her own account and her iPod and her account act exactly the same. This is great for individualism, each user has only what they want in their itunes library. Sometimes, one member of the family will rip the entire music collection into their iTunes for ease, and then want to give that music to his mum or dad or daughter. Today we’re going to look at how this can be done.
Googling for ’sharing your itunes music with your family’ gives https://www.apple.com/itunes/share/ as the first result, interestingly, the page were brought to exclaims ‘we don’t have anything here’, a sad beginning in our quest to share.
We take the fourth result from google, and it looks good: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/08/22/synchronize-itunes-libraries.html
September 2006
The site seekingalpha.com showed up on my radar about a year ago and I remember liking it, recently the headlines and stories that it features strike me as even more sensationalist and flip floppy than motley fool (thats right, i said it). I illustrate this by pointing to this story :
Why Apple’s iTV Will Fail, With or Without Google
published last week, and this story:
Why Apple Will Enter - And Win - the Flat Panel TV Market
notice the WILDLY different viewpoints in these headlines, fear not though, I’ve discovered the author of the first pessimisstic article is:
a) Using an alias
b) An analyst in non tech markets
c) Writing this article as his FIRST for seeking alpha
d) Getting a 1.2 rating from 98 people who rated his doomsday prediction.
Moving on, I bring you the real reason for this post, the comments at the bottom of this great article: Microsoft’s Strategy To Grab iPod Market Share: Subsidize Zune To the Tune of $150
are so Money, they made me laugh:
Rob Sanheim wrote on Wed Sep 20th @ 10:39 pm
Microsoft could _pay me_ to use a Zune, but if it has a user experience anything like most MS products, I’ll stick with my $200 ipod, thanks.Thomas Barta wrote on Thu Sep 21st @ 9:39 am
Maybe MSFT could just directly pay Apple not to sell iPods, kind of like what the feds do with farm subsidies. It might be cheaper for them in the long run.
