iPhone Yabber! :: ZiPhone, Apple iPhone News, Rumours & Downloads

Back when Steve Jobs announced the iPhone SDK, he told excited developers that the only applications Apple wouldn’t be permitting through the AppStore were those illegal or pornographic. Now that some of the dust has settled - and those 100,000+ coders sitting down in front of the SDK! - questions are being asked about just how accurate that statement was. While it’s open-season for mobile entertainment software such as games, productive apps or messenger clients, developers behind services such as Rhapsody or Napster, who would rival Apple’s own iTunes store, are curious to know Steve Jobs stance on them creating programs for the iPhone.

“It’s an open question at this point how amenable Apple will be to offering products or applications that could conceivably interfere with its own iTunes revenue stream. The real interesting test case will be Amazon. Here’s a music vendor selling songs that are clearly compatible with the iPhone. Unlike with Rhapsody or Napster, there’s no DRM you need to make work” Ross Rubin, analyst, NPD Group

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It has been reported that Apple are talking to music companies about giving users free access to the entire itunes music library in exchange for paying a premium for the iPod and iPhone devices.

Apple refused to comment on the plan, but Apple reps say talks are currently regarding just how much they would need to charge to allow access to music label’s libraries.

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Anybody who has ever suffered a hard drive crash, or had a hard drive go to that giant datacenter in the sky, knows the pain involved in restoring your computer files, especially if you dont have full backups.

Now, with the help of an intuitive piece of software called iPod Copy Expert, making backup copies of your iPod playlists just got a whole lot easier. No longer do you have to spend hours all over again ripping your favorite CDs to MP3 so that you can access them on your computer

iPod Copy Expert gives windows users (Win98/2000/ME/XP/Vista) the ability to quickly copy files and playlists from your iPod to a folder on your hard drive, or to import your iPod library directly into iTunes.

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Apple Inc. was sued Wednesday regarding the iTunes music store, and iPod music players which are apparently using patented method for distributing media around the internet.

Zap Media (The company suing) wants royalties on Apple’s saled of iPods, and iTunes music, which reached a massive 11 billion dollars last year.

The patents in question cover a way of sending music/digital content from servers to multi-media players (iPods).

Zap Media applied for the patents back in 1999, the first one was granted in March 2006, and the second one on Tuesday.

Robert Frohwein, ZapMedia’s general counsel, had this to say in a statement,
“When someone takes our vision and our intellectual property without a license after several attempts, we have no option but to protect it through every means available to us.”

An Apple spokesman has said the company does not wish to discuss pending lawsuits.

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Along side the MacBook and MacBook Pro releases, Apple have recently announced that iTunes is the 2nd best music retailer in the US, Wal-Mart is number 1. Apple also said they would like to thank there 50 million+ users for sticking with them and using the service often.

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