Comments on: DAAP Licensing

By: David Warde-Farley

David Warde-Farley — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:16:16 +0000

I know that Limewire also can make use of DAAP, as I frequently see suchandsuch’s “Limewire Tunes” in iTunes as a shared library while on my school network. I sort of doubt that they licensed the technology.

And for other interested readers of the *nix persuasion but who’ve got at least one Mac, mt-daapd is really sweet, especially when you combine it with SSH tunneling. Take your music library with you without the iPod

By: Tomer Chachamu

Tomer Chachamu — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:16:47 +0000

In other words, Apple is incompetent at licensing. I guess they really can’t roll out updates quickly to third parties.

Of course, this doesn’t incline me to dismiss “the second option”, but to tell them to buckle down.

By: PixelSlave

PixelSlave — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:53:24 +0000

If Dave Winer still provides a searchable archive of his blog posts, you could try to search and find his comments regarding Apple and its developers. The bottomline is, Apple rarely cares its developers. To a certain degree, one could even say that Microsoft treats its developers a lot better than Apple does — after all, MS does make money by selling development tools.

People needs to constantly remind themselves that Apple is a hardware company. It wants people to buy Apple hardware. Anything that will cause their hardware sales to decrease will never happen.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:13:35 +0000

As a Roku Soundbridge owner I peruse their forums a lot, the furore that Roku faced from users was amazing. The damage to their business rep must have had an impact as suddenly their claim for their product was untrue. This isnt just Apple stabbing Roku in the back but I would consider unethical. Roku seemed to take the blame with the majority of iTunes users ignorant of the fact or unwilling to accept that it was actual Apples fault.
It is nice to see you set the record straight here.
I wonder if Roku considered any legal action or were Apple so much the big fish that Roku knew that legal action would only server to damage them further in terms of finances.