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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Obnoxious Listeners - Latest Comments in iTunes, shmiTunes</title><link>http://obnoxiouslisteners.disqus.com/</link><description>We Gave Up on the Radio a Long Time Ago</description><atom:link href="http://obnoxiouslisteners.disqus.com/itunes_shmitunes_16/latest.rss" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:09:52 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: iTunes, shmiTunes</title><link>http://www.obnoxiouslisteners.com/editorials/itunes-shmitunes/#comment-7235310</link><description>&lt;a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=14451" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=...&lt;/a&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">oneillbp</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:09:52 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: iTunes, shmiTunes</title><link>http://www.obnoxiouslisteners.com/editorials/itunes-shmitunes/#comment-7068738</link><description>I look at it as Apple shutting the little guy down because they don't want competition with the future product that Apple/SiriusXM are working on together.  Maybe there wasn't all that detail in that one article, but search &lt;a href="http://news.goggle.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;news.goggle.com&lt;/a&gt; if you want more information.  I understand the Apple needs to protect their business model, but they are rejecting more and more apps due to this reason.  That will ultimately kill the innovative spirit which built their app store in the first place.  They are effectively saying to the little guys, thanks for making us so much money...but we don't need you anymore.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And it delays functionality which I really want!  Why not just work together, brand the app, pay the little guy, and put your planned version out as rev. 2 when you get there 8 months later...</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">oneillbp</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:04:29 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: iTunes, shmiTunes</title><link>http://www.obnoxiouslisteners.com/editorials/itunes-shmitunes/#comment-7053435</link><description>That article doesn't seem to blame Apple, but Sirius XM instead.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dan</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:09:51 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: iTunes, shmiTunes</title><link>http://www.obnoxiouslisteners.com/editorials/itunes-shmitunes/#comment-7049146</link><description>Speaking of iTunes, I'm mad at Apple today:  &lt;a href="http://www.themoneytimes.com/articles/20090228/sirius_xm_tunes_out_the_iphone-id-1052221.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.themoneytimes.com/a...&lt;/a&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">oneillbp</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:38:05 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
