Recommended: Sonos Digital Music System

Posted on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 10:59 am GMT -8

We bought a Sonos Digital Music System back in September 2006, and I’ve been meaning to write about it for a while. It’s a terrific product that has us listening to music far more regularly than we ever did. What’s more, it works pretty well with audiobooks that we’ve imported into iTunes or purchased from […]

Thoughts on “Thoughts on Music”

Posted on Thursday, February 8th, 2007 01:30 am GMT -8

On Tuesday, in an open letter Thoughts on Music, Steve Jobs responded (accidentally ;-) to my prior post calling on Apple to license FairPlay to other device makers. It’s a brilliant piece of writing, as all the best propaganda is, covering a lot of ground concisely and persuasively. Other people have analysed Thoughts on Music […]

Five reasons Apple should license FairPlay

Posted on Monday, January 29th, 2007 02:08 am GMT -8

I have some very specific, personal reasons why I want to see Apple license their FairPlay Digital Rights Management (DRM) system to other device makers; I’ll publish those later this week. Here I want to lay out a logical argument for why Apple should do this, in their own best interests. 1. Running into the […]


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