It’s always easy to portray a company’s product plans as having some hidden, sinister meaning. Certainly, we’ve all done it for years with Microsoft, and certainly their behavior has justified many of the most insidious conspiracy theories.
Lots of people also have their suspicions about Apple. After all, Steve Jobs can create that legendary “reality distortion [...]

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been reviewing the impact, first, of the statement by Steve Jobs that Apple would love DRM to go away, and, second, the decision of EMI Music to offer that alternative.
You’d think millions and millions of music lovers have been clamoring for that freedom, plus superior-quality audio, all at just [...]