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10-03-2008, 12:33 AM
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Try getting a custom ringtone for your iPhone. Apple are disgusting. I just bought my last Apple product.
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10-03-2008, 01:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Vancouver, BC | | | you're basing your whole opinion on that? and comparing apple to microsoft because of just that?
somebody close this ridiculous thread please. |
10-03-2008, 03:15 AM
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10-03-2008, 03:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: London UK | | | In all fairness, I think the OP might be using "hyperbole". I mean really, I would much rather an apple than multiple-sclerosis. Now, a bananna on the other hand....
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10-03-2008, 03:23 AM
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10-03-2008, 03:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | Someone just noticed that apple are pretty much the exact same as MS, wow! 
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10-03-2008, 03:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Athens, Greece | | | I think in essence they're making a serious mistake in the way they handle iPhone as an Apple-controlled platform, requiring their approval for software, ringtone services, etc. Although I am a Mac user, this has been a deal-breaker for me.
It will be interesting to see how the market develops once Android OS is out, being the exact opposite, a very open platform for mobile application development. |
10-03-2008, 05:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Alcyon  you're basing your whole opinion on that? and comparing apple to microsoft because of just that?
somebody close this ridiculous thread please. | The new iPhone will only use music purchased via iTunes for their ringtone. Ok so far so good. Most of us have a few of those. Then it's another .99 cents to use a tune as a ringtone. A tune you already paid for. There was a workaround but an iTunes update closed that "loophole".
MS is evil but when Apple shows the same greed Mac fans just spread them and say Yes Please! |
10-03-2008, 05:34 AM
|  | (((o))) Moderator | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Antwerp, Belgium | | A Macbook in the States: 999 dollar
A Macbook in Europe: 999 euro
Anyone care to explain this 382 dollar / 270 euro we're paying extra?  |
10-03-2008, 05:38 AM
| | TB's resident Rush freak | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Minneapolis, MN | | As of a week ago it was still very possible to make your own ringtones, did I miss something? 
In my company's case, the fact that Apple is keeping such a tight control on the developers is a POSITIVE trait. It keeps the platform stable, and allows the phone to function reliably in a business environment. We allow employees to choose their own smartphones, and they are moving to the iPhone in droves. My old Blackberry has been collecting dust since I got mine.
To each their own, I think it's a brilliant product and smart strategy. Then again, I'm an IT nazi. 
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10-03-2008, 05:43 AM
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Originally Posted by syciprider There was a workaround but an iTunes update closed that "loophole". | No they didn't. I just made another ringtone right in iTunes after your post to test it because I hadn't made one since iTunes 8 came out and it works just fine. You can also make one in Audacity and I've been told that Garage Band has some sort of "Export as ringtone" option. It's fairly easy to do right in iTunes though. Google it because I don't have time to type it out this morning.
I guess it's time for Maki to break out the FAIL pics.
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10-03-2008, 05:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Waco, TX | | | But yeah...Apple can be just as bad if not worse than MS...they're worse when it comes to proprietary stuff. I think they're even worse than Sony when it comes to that.
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10-03-2008, 07:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Vorago A Macbook in the States: 999 dollar
A Macbook in Europe: 999 euro
Anyone care to explain this 382 dollar / 270 euro we're paying extra? | Import taxes and duties?
I dunno......
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10-03-2008, 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Vorago A Macbook in the States: 999 dollar
A Macbook in Europe: 999 euro
Anyone care to explain this 382 dollar / 270 euro we're paying extra? | You guys are farther away from china?  |
10-03-2008, 08:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Toasted Wait, your fruit has tunes? | Yours don't?
I think that the whole ring tone thing is a bit much to completely discount an entire brand. |
10-03-2008, 08:26 AM
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10-03-2008, 10:00 AM
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Aging Former Bass Player | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Englishman in Oyster Bay, NY | | | I believe it's what the person on the other end of the line, and what they say, that is the important factor in this device.
You'll find many sounds already in the phone that will inform you there is someone who really needs to speak with you. No matter what your ringtone is and how carefully you constructed or chose it, what it actually says about you is probably not what you intended.
It's funny, we used to put all this effort now placed in ringtones on our answer message. Now we get a generic voice telling us to leave a message after the beep.
Not personal, just really sick of the importance placed on this nonsense.
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10-03-2008, 10:08 AM
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Originally Posted by syciprider Try getting a custom ringtone for your iPhone. Apple are disgusting. I just bought my last Apple product.
/rant | In all fairness, I can see why you would be upset. I know how much it would mean to you to have the Village People's "In the Navy" as your ringtone. 
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10-03-2008, 10:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Side SA | | i literally hate apple as much as i do MS. I use Apple at home and PC at the office..
like others, i see the pro's and con's of both scams they are running..
as well, every iPod that I have used has gone to s###, and what did my dumb### do.... buy another iPod.  i'll never learn.
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10-03-2008, 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by DigMe You can also make one in Audacity and I've been told that Garage Band has some sort of "Export as ringtone" option. It's fairly easy to do right in iTunes though. | If you have garageband you can drag the song you want into the window and cut/fade in/out where you want it. Then go to export as ringtone (I forget what heading that's under, probably share). It pretty much helps you along. Note: won't work with apple DRM stuff. So you can't use your songs from the iTunes store, which is how they get you to use that 99cent thing which only works with iTunes purchases. If you rip from a cd or pirate you can use the GB method.
I'm always up for some of maki's failpics though...
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