Frankly though, your DRM rant was an awful lot of hot air. It makes good sense to rid ourselves as much as possible of needlessly burning up resources for temporary trivialities. If it can be sensibly done online than it should be. In the case of your nemesis, Time Machine makes backing up everything an absolute breeze so once you've downloaded it then you've got a backup if need be.
Well I do my backups, "on premises" as it were, by maintaining the same file set on multiple machines So in actuality, I'm not tied to DVDs, punch cards, or the internet for backup. I simply choose to lead my life in a self contained, self managed manner, as much as is reasonably possible.
In some ways I'm actually looking forward to the day when the copyright Nazis get there way and I will have even less impetus to waste my time on all that mind-numbingly repetitive drivel we call popular media.
Here you've missed the real advancement, by virtue of your dis-affinity for tangible items, and it's name is "Redbox". At $1.00 for a DVD, a buck 50 for Blu-ray, getting jacked up with said drivel, doesn't sting quite so badly. I would caution you that the entertainment industry, has your outlook right where they want it. Perhaps it's my innate paranoia, but I'm seeing people being herded toward dependency on all things internet. Meanwhile data caps are being put in place, and yes DRM is becoming more invasive.
I'd much rather strum on my guitar with friends for music....[ ]...
In a blindingly ironic, face palming coincidence, I just bought 2 new guitars in the past couple of months. Found out that you can finally buy a decent left handed guitar, off the rack, off the internet. (More irony)
(or listen to you lash out incredulously at anything and anybody positively Apple
~ ).
Apple's business model is easily explicable. It's oriented around the sale of hardware. Said hardware is marked up abundantly, as are Apple parts, and Apple service. That being said, it's quite easy for them to make themselves look good by offering OS upgrades at what is perceived as giveaway prices. They've already made their money, at the jump. Big time.
What is inexplicable to me, is how many of Apple owners are there by virtue of their own incompetence, the simple inability to maintain a Windows machine. Then they compound this annoyance by letting everybody else suffer their elitist delusions.
The argument occasionally boils down to , "well you can't afford an Apple". Nobody seems capable of accepting the simple logical paradigm of a double negative solution. Well, OK then, I admit it, I can't afford an Apple. But guess what, if I could, I wouldn't buy one anyway. That's where their mind boggles, with a complete inability to grasp that concept. If somebody handed me the money for an eMac, I'd just go piss it away on another guitar or motorcycle, and then go back to plugging away on my eMachine.
God help you if you actually did try to explain to some of these fanatics, that there really is more to life that the next piece of "Crapple" hardware, that you might either have to sell your kidney, or lick Steve Job's boots to get. That would be virtual blasphemy. (pun intended).
"An Apple a day keeps Cranky typing away"
So it would seem....