To lessen line waiting time and avoid overworking already-frazzled AT&T employees, Apple is letting you activate your iPhone and choose your rate plan via iTunes. (…)
Apple said in an email yesterday that an iTunes Store account will be required to set up the iPhone. (…)
In case you were wondering, the song in the original iPhone commercial, which first aired during the 2007 Oscars, is “Inside Your Head” by Eberg. (…)
“The iPhone will be prevented from directly downloading music or video itself, even though it is a wireless broadband-capable device,” according to Fortune’s Brent Schlender. (…)
“A world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats � is clearly the best alternative for consumers,” Steve Jobs said earlier this week in an open letter he posted on the Apple website titled “Thoughts on Music.”
Jobs said he wants to get rid of FairPlay, the Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology that prevents songs downloaded on iTunes from being loaded onto MP3 players other than Apple’s iPod. (…)
