iTunes Shoves Aside Musicmatch
from the play-nicely... dept
When Apple first launched a Windows version of the iPod, they worked with MusicMatch to supply the necessary software, since they didn't have a Windows version of iTunes. Eventually, they decided to launch their own. This wasn't a huge surprise to the folks at MusicMatch who realized immediately that their old partner had become a competitor. What they didn't expect, however, was that the new iTunes for Windows would shove installed copies of MusicMatch aside, and stop it from working with the iPod. That's right. Even if you had been using MusicMatch for your iPod prior to downloading iTunes, the iTunes install disables that functionality. This seems to go a little bit too far. Installing a new application should not interfere with the way old applications work - especially when many people will probably want to continue to use both (or will just be testing out iTunes before deciding whether or not to stick with MusicMatch).
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Hopefully, they sue
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Re: Hopefully, they sue
Apple licensed MusicMatch to ship with the iPod.
The only version of MusicMatch that works with the iPod is the version that ships with the iPod. The only functionality of MusicMatch that get's disabled if you install iTunes is the iPod interoperability.
Oh, and iTunes WARNS you that it's going to disable MusicMatch interaction with the iPod when you install it.
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Re: Hopefully, they sue
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really happens all over the place
it blocked IIS and installed its own apache server and connection, turned it on and made all the sites running on my computer inaccessible.
sadly, it's really common, and not much can be done about it.
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I Got an Email from Musicmatch on This
Since I am not nor plan to be an iTunes user, I deleted it. If I hadn't I would have posted at least excerpts from that email here (it was actually pretty long).
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Outlook and Groupwise
Am I the only one that finds this behavior exceptionally childish?
MLO
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