I must once again confess that I’m a total ringtone Luddite. Yup, I’m still rocking Marimba! But for those of you with a Mac who want to kick it old school or drop the latest hawtness straight onto your iPhone, PocketMac brings you RingtoneStudio:
…easily create ringtones from practically any multimedia file — from QuickTime movies to unprotected music files of all types. What’s even better, there’s no crazy iPhone hacking required. Your iPhone doesn’t even have to be connected when you’re creating your ringtones.
If any of you iPhone ringtone DJs decide to give it a whirl, let us know how it works for you!
With the super-fast new 3G iPhone Steve Jobs will all but certainly announce this June, it makes sense that Apple would want to provide services that exploit all that delicious bandwidth, like over-the-air (read: via cell as opposed to WiFi or local sync) ringtones, ringbacks (shudder!), and iTunes Music Store purchases. Sounds great! You’re on the road, away from your WiFi and your computer, and you hear a great song, and it’s available right there via 3G HSDPA download. More songs for us, more content for Apple, and more money for the artists, right?
Wrong. Enter the record labels, who reportedly think that if you buy a song over 3G as opposed to WiFi on your computer, it should somehow give them MORE money. That’s right, a bigger cut for them, meaning higher cost to Apple, meaning (unless Apple eats it like they are with movie sales right now), higher cost to us.
Makes, sense: be given a bigger, more convenient market… demand higher prices.
Where did these guys come from? Did I miss some late-night infomercial…?
The iPhone Blog merged with the Phone different site in May of 2008. Both sites were founded on a premise that comes one from one of Apple's old slogans: Think different. The iPhone Blog: for people who dare to phone different.
