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Originally Posted by brundles
Why do I have a feeling that the price of the ringtone is actually more expensive than the price of the whole song?
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Because it does
iTunes will provide any 30 seconds of 1,000,000 songs for you for $0.99 each.
Now if you own the song in iTunes already, you pay $0.99 for Apple to ringtone-ify it. Something I presume happens instantly on the fly and doesn't really cost them anything.
Now, if you don't own the song, and just want a ringtone, you have to buy it in iTunes first for $0.99 and then pay the ringtone fee of another $0.99 for the grand sum of $1.98.
As I said, how Jobs has the balls to get away with it and sleep and night, I really don't know. He gets away with it legally because its stipulated in the EULA so he can charge what he wants, but it suprises me how many in the Mac community just keep supporting it.
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*turns to camera 2* In other news...
You can't keep a good hacker down
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Apple had warned those who had unlocked their iPhones that their handsets would be rendered unusable come its next update, and indeed it stayed true to its threat with the update, released last week, turning the phones into little more than expensive paperweights.
Now though, it has emerged that hackers have found a way to reverse some of the update and restore a limited number of functions to the phone. However, although they have managed to get the iPod and Wi-Fi features working again, some unlocked and updated iPhones' days as a mobile phone are still over - for the time being.
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