![]() ![]() (There are some exceptions, of course, but not as many as there ought to be.) Since the iPhone is also “the best iPod Apple ever made,” according to Steve Jobs, it already has your tunes on it. Why is this so horrible, since it seems demonstrably and easily superior to any other ringtone service offered today? Other cell phones are not tied to music players like iTunes-there’s no way to get music onto the phone except by the cell phone’s preferred method. ![]() ![]() The terms also require that ringtones be used “only … as a musical ‘ringer’ in connection with phone calls,” and prohibit you from burning them to audio CDs or DVDs. Note that the terms allow you to put purchased iTunes music and videos that aren’t ringtones on “up to five Apple-authorized devices” at once, and allow you to store purchases from up to five iTunes accounts on a single device. New iTunes Store terms of service require that you can only sync an iPhone with a ringtone to one computer, and that attempting to sync it to another computer will erase your ringtones and replace them with any ringtones on the syncing computer. You must also own the entire tune from iTunes first, so the complete cost is $1.98-half to buy the song and half to turn it into a ringtone. It then synchronizes to your iPhone as a ringtone. ![]() When you like what you hear, click “Buy” and you’ve spent 99 cents on the version you just made. Three bucks for a 30-second snippet that lasts a year-when you can buy the entire song online for $1 and own it forever? What am I missing here? How is a 30-second, time-limited excerpt worth three times as much as the full work forever? Does this not enter the heads of the people who are paying $5 billion a year?” Incredibly, after 90 days, every Sprint ringtone dies, and you have to pay another $2.50 if you want to keep it. You don’t get to customize them, choose the start and end points, adjust the looping, and so on. New York Times blog: “Pop song ringtones from T-Mobile and Sprint cost $2.50 apiece from Verizon, $3. This, of course, is why everyone hates it with the white-hot passion normally reserved for members of an opposing political party. Apple’s implementation of ringtones is significantly more advanced, less expensive, and more flexible than that provided by virtually any other phone maker or cellular carrier. Support in iTunes 7.4 for purchasing ringtones from the iTunes Store. If there’s been more bluster about anything other thanĪpple’s $200 iPhone price cut, it’s about the new ![]()
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