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Well Apple Matters, I have officially deleted my Apple Matters bookmark. The articles here for the past year just don't have any meaning. And I've posted a few times in the past on certain ones. This one is part of them. So you just have the name Apple in your name for the hits it will get you? This site is just unreadable now. Bye.

You write regarding Europe, but it was the governments of Europe that regulated and forced cellphone providers to use one standard for cell phones. GSM. The US has GSM, CDMA and TDMA. Three different types of that require differnt phones to work on them. iPhone, a GSM device will not work on Verizon, a CDMA network. So the basic premise of the article is moot. Is our government now going regulate (force) manufactures to produce phones that MUST work on all network types? OR is government going to set a standard for the US? Which one? GEM? So now government is going to force a private company, Verizon either to change or go out of business? Forcing device makers to manufacture cell phones to work on all three US networks will make the phones bigger and less reliable for sure. Let alond even more expensive. Government is going to now make all companies, or just cell phone companies to not allow them to offer a unique device, iPhone, Treo, RAZR, whatever to attrack customers? And how come at these bogus hearings, no one mentiond Apple first offered the iPhone to Verizon? Verizon turned down the product/offer. Just because someone wants an iPhone, but not want to go to ATT from Sprint, government thinks this is wrong? WTF What next, car dealeships must offer ALL cars for sale on one lot? Burger King must sell McDonalds products? Or McDonalds selling only Coco Cola products, will now have to offer Pepsi products too? Leave companies and the consumer to purchase what THEY want. And not government dictated. Pathetic.

You need to use the iport feature in mail to bring in your older email. Simple dragging the folders into the new mail or computer, you will lose certain email. You wll see the old email and who it's from, but the body text on some will be gone. I don't know why. but if you import the old email, you will be fine.

The argument is the iPod is selling the music. Jobs will give them a dollar per iPod sold. Then Jobs will require the publishers to pat Apple up how much to get onto the itunes store? Now it's free for Universal or EMI. two can play that game. You want access to itunes, how much is it worth to them? There will be no fee's paid to publshers. Simple. And then the movies studios will demand a fee for DVD player sales. Not going to happen.

I updated my MacBook Pro and two MacBooks on the day of release. Using a stand aloe download of iTunes because the update wasn't showing up in the Software Update control panel. Same way with the Quicktime update using a stand alone. Not one issue for any computers for me. I have over 1200 purchased iTunes tracks. The day of release I downloaded a couple of movies and also some seasons of tv shows. All work fine. So all good and fine for me. The only issue I haad was movies and tv shows I ripped yself for use on my iPod, and all played perfectly was, iTunes 7 wouldn't transfer them over to the iPod on sync. Where as these movies always played fine and were already on my ipod. The solution turned out to be, after much experimenting was, I noticed the new Video tab using Get Info on my movies, I had to fill in the information there of "Show". Then on sync, all my movies were put back on my iPod. That was a pain too because you can't batch change this info. I had to do it individually. All in all it took my about two hours to figure it out and to change th information. But all is good overall

Whos jaded MacGlee? I and the world just aren't blindly being led by our noses by Apple & Jobs anymore. Jobs dug his own hole with the way he creates events. Now the evernts aren't all the special. What happened to his philosophy of under promised and over deliver. He believes his own "magical" star to make the press show up on demand. Jobs creates a palpitating, electric buzz for himself and his announcements. And now it's over hype and under deliver. He created it, he has to live with it when most all are underwhelmed. Apple HAS to change these announcement events.

I dislike the labels and publishers, but it would be so easy for them to cut out MS and Apple. SELL THE FRIGGIN MUSIC DIRECTLY TO CUSTOMERS! Hire IBM to create the front and backend store. Labels and publishers are so stupid. I guess the main reason is maybe they couldn't hide al of the money from the artists to rip off if they sell directly.

Jessica Simpson’s song A Public Affair. Possibly the worse song ever written, recorded and released. And I'm serious.