12:45 PM

“The iTunes/iPhone/iPod combo is a roach-motel: customers check in, but they can’t check out.” Cory Doctorow on Boingboing.net (You have to scroll down a bit.)

“Even if you are ready to pledge a lifetime commitment to the iPod as your only brand of portable music player or to the iPhone as your only cellphone once it is released, you may find that FairPlay copy protection will, sooner or later, cause you grief. You are always going to have to buy Apple stuff. Forever and ever. Because your iTunes will not play on anyone else’s hardware.”