NY Times: Want an iPhone? Beware the iHandcuffs

[Benoît Sibaud <bsibaud AT april.org>]

« Want an iPhone? Beware the iHandcuffs »
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/business/yourmoney/14digi.html?pagewanted=1&_r=7
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/business/yourmoney/14digi.html?pagewanted=2&_r=7

« (...) "crippleware" (...) It is Apple's own copy-protection software
itself that cripples the device. (...) You are always going to have to buy
Apple stuff. Forever and ever. (...) But copy protection is copy
protection: a headache only for the law-abiding. (...) The name for the
umbrella category for copy-protection software is itself an indefensible
euphemism: Digital Rights Management. As consumers, the "rights" enjoyed
are few. As some wags have said, the initials D.R.M. should really stand
for "Digital Restrictions Management." (...) Josh Bernoff, a principal
analyst at Forrester Research, agreed, saying copy protection "just locks
people into Apple." (...) »

-- 
Benoît Sibaud