Devanshu Mehta's Profile

@crass: I agree with how Linux is characterized in the article, but not how the Linux users and open source communities are described.

You start out with this: "Now, I wouldn't condone having stereotypical opinions about any individual or anyone part of a group" and then continue on with stereotypes of the worst kind. "The only success stories are people on the Internet." and "almost always switches from pirated Windows" are comments that reflect fairly little knowledge about the world of Linux users. I myself have Mac, Windows and Ubuntu in the same room coexisting at my house- which of your many points about Linux users apply to me? Mac users in particular should empathize with the Linux community- I am sure many articles were written in the 90s (and are still written today) about why nobody cares about the Mac, when Windows has a 90% marketshare and most accessories work with Windows and Mac users whine about the most pointless things. Most of this article could be re-written from the perspective of a PC user by replacing Linux with Mac, replacing "server admins and nerds" with "artists and elitists". Painting the entire Linux user community as people who want things for free is disingenuous. The Linux user community is also its debugger community and its developer community; there are no walls that separate the three. Your comments seem to imply that things that are obtained for free have no value- is Wikipedia worthless? How about charitable services? Or any other real-world community you participate in? So much of the power of Mac OS X comes from free software, and you go as far as calling everything that comes out of the free software incomplete and without commercial value? Safari is based on Webkit- free software. OS X is based on BSD- free software. Firefox- incomplete and worthless? And in the technical community, almost every tool I use is free software and of extraordinary quality. "Maybe I'm just not far-sighted or knowledgeable enough" is probably the answer.

Hah- I almost put in the 'video on the iPod' quote. But maybe next time I'll do 'the worst Apple predictions from Apple'.

That's brilliant Benji- if made in Italian leather, I think Jobs would show it off at MacWorld.

Tanner, it basically does everything specified in the iPhoneAlley.com walk through, but handles most of the non-iTunes manual steps itself. So only the iTunes prompts for downgrading, sync-ing, restoring, upgrading need to be done manually- and iFuntastic guides you through the process.

Thanks Beeblebrox- you said a lot of what I would have. What Benji seems to miss is that you need Apple's permission (even though it is not a subscription service) to listen to music you purchased from them. You need to authorize your computer. The point is not that Apple will revoke your music; it is that some day- for such is the way of businesses- Apple will either go out of business, get acquired or decide that the music business is not worth keeping around. At that point, all your downloads are worthless (except for the ones that you can burn and rip, forcing a degradation).

Such as it is, eMusic is currently the number 2 digital music provider.