http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2007/01/new-york-times-on-drm.html The Emergent Chaos Jazz Combo Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:20:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2007/01/new-york-times-on-drm.html/comment-page-1#comment-3082 neal Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:37:09 +0000 http://emergentchaos.com/?p=2170#comment-3082 Ever wonder what Steve Jobs really meant by his comment about the iPhone being "literally 5 years ahead of any other mobile phone"? My guess is that he was looking to the future of DRM, and client-crippling/monopolistic technology and noting how iPhone is incorporating all the tricks in the book to have customers who switch to Apple switch <em>permanently</em>. I worked up an illustration to this effect - don't know if it's all that funny, but the point is dead-on (I'm not biased, of course). <a href="http://www.autodogmatic.com/index.php/a/2007/01/17/steve_jobs_introduces_iphone" rel="nofollow">http://www.autodogmatic.com/index.php/a/2007/01/17/steve_jobs_introduces_iphone</a> Ever wonder what Steve Jobs really meant by his comment about the iPhone being “literally 5 years ahead of any other mobile phone”? My guess is that he was looking to the future of DRM, and client-crippling/monopolistic technology and noting how iPhone is incorporating all the tricks in the book to have customers who switch to Apple switch permanently.
I worked up an illustration to this effect – don’t know if it’s all that funny, but the point is dead-on (I’m not biased, of course).
http://www.autodogmatic.com/index.php/a/2007/01/17/steve_jobs_introduces_iphone

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