http://simonwillison.net/2007-09-14T08:15:01+00:00Simon Willison2007-09-14T08:15:01+00:002007-09-14T08:15:01+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Sep/14/daring/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://daringfireball.net/2007/09/the_ringtones_racket"><p>For any song you already own on CD, Apple is asking you to pay three times for it in order to use it as a ringtone on your iPhone: once for the CD you’ve already purchased, again to buy a needless duplicate of the track from the iTunes Store, and a third time to generate the ringtone.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://daringfireball.net/2007/09/the_ringtones_racket">John Gruber</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/apple">apple</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/iphone">iphone</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/john-gruber">john-gruber</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/music">music</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ringtones">ringtones</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ripoff">ripoff</a></p>

2007-09-12T10:08:40+00:002007-09-12T10:08:40+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Sep/12/daring/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://daringfireball.net/2007/09/weird_rude_buggy">Ways in Which iTunes&#x27;s Just-Released Official Ringtone Support Is Weird, Rude, and/or Just Plain Buggy</a></strong></p> I’ve long been saying that the existence of a ringtone “industry” is a bug, not a feature. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/apple">apple</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/itunes">itunes</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/john-gruber">john-gruber</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ringtones">ringtones</a></p>