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- Pliep, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Title is INACCURATE! They are TALKING about it, it's not gonna happen any time soon.
- Nick_Circosta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Fine that WILL be so cool if they do it :)
i mean come on, imagine just thinking of a song in flight.. and then getting it at your leisure, might keep the mind of the long flight - mcbesq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Get this motherf*cking iTunes off my motherf*cking plane!
- jrbrewin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4yeah, it's amazing you're talking about flexibility, openess, and making our lives richer... yet you talk about it in reference to iTunes. Hardly flexible, open, or making you richer.
- rodrigo74, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I guess most of the people who would actually bite and buy this kind of stuff during flight (i.e., the same people that think it's a brilliant idea to buy new sunglasses or a new swatch while cramped in a stupidly uncomfortable seat) won't care to just leave the damn songs in the iPod forever...
- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Now here is somthiing to help pass a boring flight!!
- JasonHammer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2iTunes on a plane!
- lavawalker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"In order to license an onboard system offering, Apple would have to re-engineer the software to allow songs downloaded mid-flight [onto iPod] to be transferred back on the customer's computer hard disk, currently prohibited. "
Yeah, Apple might have to change a lot to make that work. How will the music labels react? - mcbesq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Use miles to download Miles. The airlines would love it because it would further dilute the value of ff miles. The real question for consumers is how many miles would a download cost? 100? 250?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3itunes for frequent flyer miles. no thank you. how about fixing airline cost first.
/damn you skymall - quokkapox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@jrbrewin
I'm not talking about iTunes in particular (whose DRM is easily circumvented). I mean we consumers are getting corporations to offer little perks to us in exchange for using their goods/services. Those little perks can be exchanged with other consumers for other (sometimes immaterial) things we value. That makes the whole economy more complex and gives everyone more opportunities to acquire what they want more cheaply. It's good for consumers if frequent flyer miles can be exchanged for digital copies of music. A market should be allowed to emerge to trade iTunes credits (this depends on Apple). - jrbrewin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5will it? ¬_¬
as long as it keeps the pretentious masses happy and quiet on a flight, i suppose it will be of some use. - Premier, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1From a business side this is a very ingenius idea, both as a way to make money and to get travelers to part with some frequent flier miles.
- kenvibe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think its great!!! Parents can now download a lullaby for all the screaming baby's on the plane.
- astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2And charge people $2.00 for the download, and the Airlines charges you $10.00 for use of their communication, and the charges go on and on....
All so someone can watch desperate House Whores in the air...sheesh Jobbs is desperate to make money... first running Windows on a Mac, and now trying to get Apple iPODS in the air... whats next iPOD airlines?
"hello... I'm your pilot Steve Jobbs.... before we take off I would like to introduce... the ipod.... ** 30 minutes later** I know your awaiting take off... but now I've actually got Uni-vac to run on my Apple computers, you will need a large room to house the tubes and transistors, but it will run my computers...blah, blah" - danr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The catch is that with the the new iTunes iAir drm you can only listen to the songs you purchased on airline flights while you are flying with that carrier, and only whilst in the air. Any other use of your downloads, such as when the plane is on the runway, is restricted and strictly prohibited.
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1next invention, disposable ipods, listen to them on the plane and cause you cant be bothered learning to use it at home, throw it out
- quokkapox, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3It's interesting how the Internet is enabling more and more ways to "purchase" things besides exchanging hard currency for hard goods and services. It's making all of us richer.
- Nick_Circosta, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5That will be SOOO cool
- slappe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2My ipod is full, and I'll keep my miles for travel. May be useful to some perhaps.
- Osjpr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2there are plenty of things to help pass the flight time, the last thing you want to do is support drm and itunes
- rodrigo74, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5Well, I for one wouldn't buy this kind of stuff, no DRM'ed music in my player, thanks.
But for Apple this could be a nice idea, they could for example join this with in-flight sales of iPod shuffle, and once Mr BusinessMan see how easy it is to load music in the thing during flight, he might as well start doing it at home using regular iTunes.
Not much to lose on Apple's side, I guess...
Me? I'm waiting for the day they will give net access (wi-fi preferably) for all the poor souls in the economy class :(
No digg for the story though, due to misleading title... - Auzy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I blogged about having iTunes on airplanes about a month ago in: http://auzy.blogspot.com/2006/02/auzys-technology-predictionswishlist.html, so its not really a new concept.
The blog also details methods which would be required to allow it to happen well.. or at least ideas of how to do it. There are always a billion ways of doing the same thing.
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