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Linked List: September 9, 2006

Saturday, 9 September 2006

Tom Merritt:

So, in summary, to be allowed the privilege of purchasing a video that I can’t burn to DVD and can’t watch on my iPod, I have to allow a program to hijack my start-up and force me to login to uninstall it? No way. Sorry, Amazon. I love a lot of what you do, but I will absolutely not recommend this service.

iTunes Music Store fans certainly can’t complain about the fact that you have to download Amazon’s own player software, but installing a bunch of hidden startup processes is unseemly, even on Windows.

[Update: A couple of readers have pointed out that iTunes for Windows also installs hard-to-disable background processes (iTunesHelper and iPodService). Still seems like the reviews for Amazon Unbox are overwhelmingly negative, though.

(Via Slashdot.)

Inside Apple’s iPod Earbuds ★

Jeremy Horwitz:

If you’ve ever wondered what’s inside a pair of iPod earbuds, here’s your chance to take a look. Though Apple has gone through several different iterations of its now-famous pack-ins, this particular pair is from the batch shipped with the most recent iPods - nano and 5G.