Excerpts from a response to an email from Jack Clark:
"Jack, love you. Still I won’t go to i-tunes for you. Open source = free speech, civil rights and possibly an improvement in the way humans treat humans, and so forth.
i-anything and i-everything is repulsive to me ever since the charismatic, actually viral, Steve Jobs , threw in with the Fraunhofer bunch (remember the Third Reich?!) and the Moving Picture Experts Group, with only one goal in mind. THAT GOAL BEING THE DISTRIBUTION OF KNOCK-OFFS (mp3s of real music), no matter the consequences, PROFIT ABOVE ALL.
Without Maja Jobs there would have been no deafening of a generation by ear buds and mp3. The i-man allowed no access to lossless feeds. Emotionless, sterile mp3 was all that was available to the music hungry youngsters. Forget the Walkman, t0o big, not enough, crummy cassettes. And forget headphones, just stick it in their ears.
See I don’t do i-stuff, but I’ll darn sure vote for you on Podcast Alley".
Take care, be well,
Fred
2 responses so far ↓
DJ // July 4, 2009 at 1:52 AM
Sterile mp3 is right, to many damn formats as well. Think about it, you have an entire generation that has been brought up listening to a compressed format. We just compromised size for quality. Smaller is not better, and to think that the audiophile crowd was dismissed for demanding good recordings back in the day…
Vinyl will live forever!!
Lance // July 4, 2009 at 9:12 AM
As usual the sheep bow to all new things without paying any attention to what will happen in the not so distant future, which is baaaaaaaaaad…silly sheep. Soon to be silly deaf sheep.