This is only about the previews.
Palm Pre exploited security holes that would have allowed any rogue USB device falsely reporting itself as an iPhone to access e.g. your address book, and Apple patched the security holes. Quibble all you want over Apple's motivations, but there wasn't any other responsible thing for them to do.
> Although downloading iTunes previews are illegal and restricted by Apple
What does the author mean by this? If downloading the files are illegal, why is there an API for it? And why do Apple products have features for consumers to do it? Is he trying to make a distinction between downloading and streaming?
> ...music video previews; (iv) is streamed only, and not downloaded, saved, cached, or synchronized with video
http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentati...
I don't want the whole internet to look like svbtle. Heck, I don't even want svbtle to look like svbtle.
The player app on my phone plays just about every audio format available, including ogg and flac.
