Re: Apple's monopolistic business practices

In article <jollyroger-D0A70F.16454104072008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Jolly Roger <jollyroger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <uce-8CB67D.17214104072008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>  Gregory Weston <uce@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > In article <jollyroger-310903.15210404072008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > > In article <drache-DE3575.11324304072008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >  erilar <drache@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > > > In article <jollyroger-FA5404.23022403072008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > >  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > I find the way iTunes works with the iPod fairly intuitive. I
can 
> > > > > certainly access and sort through my tunes *much* faster using
the 
> > > > > iTunes interface than I ever could using a simple file / folder 
> > > > > hierarchy!
> > > > 
> > > > On iTunes(and iPod) I'll agree, and I'm otherwise a hard-nosed
folder 
> > > > nester 8-)
> > > 
> > > Same here, and I'm strict about file / folder organization. And
IIRC, I 
> > > had the initial knee-jerk reaction of "oh, UH-UH!" the first time I 
> > > realized iTunes stored tunes in its own opaque database rather than 
> > > letting me organize them myself with folders in the Finder.
> > 
> > It doesn't, though. Never has. It stores a large cache of metadata and

> > tracking info in an opaque database (along with an XML file that 
> > contains a subset of the same info), but the songs never stop being 
> > discrete entities in the file system. It's just an issue of whether
the 
> > user or iTunes controls where those files live and how they're sorted.
> 
> Brain fart - I, of course, do know iTunes stores tunes  as files in the 
> file system.  I think I must have somehow been thinking of iPhoto, which

> does things quite differently.

iPhoto, in the most recent incarnation, has decided to make the photo 
library a package. My best guess is that they did this to prevent people 
from messing around with the archival versions of the photos that iPhoto 
keeps around when you make edits, but I really wish the current state of 
your library wasn't buried inside something that an awful lot of users 
will never realize they can dig around in.

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