Why is it no different than me trying to impersonate a college student to avoid paying full price entry at the cinema?
Sorry, but another bad analogy. The only way to make that one work is if the theater had a table where you could fill out a form saying that you were a college student, even if you weren't, and then you could get the discount.
Sorry, how is that a bad analogy? To qualify for student prices you need to be able to present an NUS card. If I forged a card and presented it, I could probably pass myself off as a student and get the discount. But I don't do that because I'm not a cheap bastard, unlike Palm.....
Sorry, my analogy wasn't all that great either, but I said it was a bad analogy because there are already "non-students" (Blackberry) that can go through an annoying process like "filling out some paperwork" (Media Sync) to get the discount, even though they aren't "real students" (iPods).
In the end, what I should have said is that I don't care much for analogies for technology issues. I don't think they clarify very much at all.
Yep, and there are 3rd party MP3 players and phones that sync directly with iTunes because the companies that made them worked out agreements with Apple.
Interesting. I wasn't aware of that. Could you give me a few examples?
Still, I wonder how the conversation would go now that Apple is on top and the #1 music store is selling their hardware for them.
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