Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Daring Fireball: Ways in Which iTunes's Just-Released Official Ringtone Support Is Weird, Rude, and/or Just Plain Buggy:

Think about how weaselly this wording is. It’s like a politician who’s asked a pointed question about topic A, and responds with a non sequitur talking point regarding topic B.

User: I’d like to turn this song right here into a ringtone.

iTunes: You can turn some of those songs over there into ringtones.

Perhaps whoever wrote the copy for this dialog was simply too ashamed to spell it out: iTunes will not allow you to use any non-iTunes Store audio file with its built-in Create Ringtone feature.

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