09-28-2005, 02:00 PM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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iTunes for Windows Mobile?
The pictures are there, the supporting info is there - yet unless I have a working demo in my hands, I'll continue to believe that this is a fake. Sure enough, it's easy to see why iTunes exists on a Windows PC. The application is the iPod's desktop companion, and with thousands of iPod users worldwide using Windows over Mac OS, it makes plenty of sense for Apple to support both platforms.
Now what would Apple have to gain from having iTunes support the Windows Mobile platform? I can only list a small number of Pocket PCs out there with USB-Host - so Apple would have to be out of their mind to think iTunes for Windows Mobile would open up a whole new world of iPod sync functionality. Now if you wanted to argue that this isn't about having iPods sync with another platform, but rather Apple wanting to tap even further into the mobile media market by shutting off Windows Media Player Mobile, then this would appear to be a pretty brash move on Apple's part, because wouldn't that just eat into iPod sales?
I could go on forever, but I won't. Remember, a little bit of free time and a little bit of imagination can get you anywhere.
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09-28-2005, 02:22 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Dec 2006
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Seriously, fakers should be a little bit higher quailty.
1. His phone is in Vibrate mode, so there is no sound, lol. Even then, he does listens to the music.
2. The buttons have taken 1:1 from iTunes. C'mon, this is a POCKET version. Why would they use 1:1 buttons?
3. Apple scrollbars....
4. How much time does it take make a couple of fake screenshots, then make a quick app with a fake menubar in VS2005 with the bitmaps scrolling for example?
Besides that, it still looks nice. I want a GSPlayer/Pocket Player/insert your favorite skinnable PPC media player here skin like this 
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09-28-2005, 02:57 PM
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Executive Editor
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Yeah, I'm betting this is a fake. Nice work on his part, but I can't see Apple making this play. They won't support WMA in iTunes, and they certainly won't support Windows Mobile either.
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09-28-2005, 03:01 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
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The asnwer to "Why" is in Forbes this month. In their Richest Americans Issue they list Steve Jobs. In his write up it says that Apple is extatic about its IPod sales, but concerned about its ITunes sales.
So, how do you fix Itunes? Make it available, and, in Apple's mind, hopefully the defacto computer, phone, PDA, music download system regardless of the OS. You don't grow a business by limiting it's accessibility. If they want ITunes to catch up, and become, or remain viable they need to be on every device possible. Maybe even web-enabled refrigerators!!!!! :lol:
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09-28-2005, 03:02 PM
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Magi
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Could someone have created a hacked version for WM?
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09-28-2005, 04:04 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Dec 2004
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
Yeah, I'm betting this is a fake. Nice work on his part, but I can't see Apple making this play. They won't support WMA in iTunes, and they certainly won't support Windows Mobile either.
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Does Windows Media support unprotected AAC files?
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09-28-2005, 04:05 PM
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Thinker
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Originally Posted by PetiteFlower
Could someone have created a hacked version for WM?
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No. Not without the source code to the original and I bet Apple don;t give it away.
Seriously though WM Itunes would be nice.
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09-28-2005, 04:11 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Originally Posted by ChunkyMonkey
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
Yeah, I'm betting this is a fake. Nice work on his part, but I can't see Apple making this play. They won't support WMA in iTunes, and they certainly won't support Windows Mobile either.
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Does Windows Media support unprotected AAC files? |
No, you'll need something like this with the AAC plugin that can be found here, you'll need to scroll down to about half way to see it and be sure to select the Windows Mobile Version.
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09-28-2005, 04:34 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Uuucckkk!!!....hopefully it is a fake. Perhaps another piece of evidence that it is a fake is the fact that the device is a T-Mobile MDA II ( http://www.pdagold.com/hardware/detail.asp?DeviceID=154 ), YET is obviously running the Windows Mobile 5 OS (by the softkeys at the bottom of the screen). Very few devices are getting an upgrade to WM5, and certainly NOT the MDA II :wink:
iTunes is plain and simple SPYWARE. Why? If I want to install Quicktime (for Windows), I *HAVE* to install iTunes!!!!! That fits the definition of spyware in my book. Perhaps Apple's company slogan should be "Apple, we know more about computing than you do." Remeber folks, Microsoft got sued for similar behavior :bad-words:
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09-28-2005, 04:36 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Dec 2003
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Originally Posted by KTamas
Seriously, fakers should be a little bit higher quailty.
1. His phone is in Vibrate mode, so there is no sound, lol. Even then, he does listens to the music.
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Can't you have vibrate for phone functions but still listen to music through the headphones?
I think that's a feature of WM5 phone edition....
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