Two weeks after a busy tidings week yielded not one but two editions of the Macworld Podcast , the news just kept on come . disc label EMI announced that it woulddrop digital rights direction restrictions from its on-line music offeringsand that Apple would sell the DRM - free track ( encoded at a gamy scrap pace ) for $ 1.29 each at the iTunes Music Store . Google released a Mac version of its Google Desktop hunting shaft . And Apple announce that it sold its100 millionth iPod .
Three interesting development . So in this instalment of the Macworld Podcast , we ’ll cover them all .
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Show Notes
There ’s lots of news and analysis on EMI ’s decisiveness at Macworld.com andPlaylist , including what the decisiveness mean forconsumersas well asother record labels . I share my thinking on the tidings inthis iPod Blog entry , while my colleague Dan Frakes looked at whether the EMI news coupled with iTunes ’ unexampled Complete My Album feature might lead to arevival of the record album . Dan Moren , who you ’ll hear elsewhere in the podcast , has some view on DRM too .
To read more from Greg Joswiak on what lies ahead for the iPod , check outthis report from Jim Dalrymple . I recountmy own contribution to the iPod ’s 100 million milepost .
We ’ve got a first flavor at Google Desktop . Dan and his MacUser cohortscover this software package extensively ; John Gruber look atwhat the Google Desktop Installer is installing .
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