Apple offers volume limits for iPods.

Seems like a reasonable solution.

Now, for Apple's next legal battle.

Apple Records (the Beatles' label) is suing on the basis that iPod and iTunes violate a 1991 agreement that Apple Computers would stay out of the music business so as not to cause Trademark confusion.

The Beatles story brings up one of my favorite Apple anecdotes: after the agreement that Apple computers wouldn't have anything to do with audio, Apple introduced sounds to the OS. One of the first chimes (that's still in the alert sounds list)? "Sosumi".

Bwahaha. Sosumi was always my favorite Mac alert sound, glad to know the origin now :D

ETA: Heh, Apple also uses 'Sosumi' as the name of the CSS style for their website's copyright notice

One of the things I love about Apple (besides their tres cool products) is their sense of humour (more so in the earlier days). One of my favorites (courtesy of Wikipedia):

In 1994, Apple Computer began developing the Power Macintosh 7100. They chose the internal code name "Carl Sagan," in honor of the astronomer. Though the project name was strictly internal and never used in public marketing, when Sagan learned of this internal usage, he sued Apple Computer to use a different project name — other projects had names like "Cold fusion" and "Piltdown Man", and he was displeased at being associated with what he considered pseudoscience. Though Sagan lost the suit, Apple engineers complied with his demands anyway, renaming the project "BHA" (Butthead Astronomer). Sagan sued Apple for libel over the new name, claiming that it subjected him to contempt and ridicule. Sagan lost this lawsuit as well; still, the 7100 saw another name change: it was lastly called "LAW" (Lawyers Are Wimps).

So basically, Apple is offering a device which would accomplish the same task as say, oh I don't know...

TURNING DOWN THE VOLUME?!? :rolleyes:

It's mostly for parents to put on their kids' iPods.

How did we ever make to adult-hood being able to hear with our walkmans not having volume control... (there were buds around way back when)

How many hours did you listen to your walkman compared to how many hours the average kid listens to their iPod?

I wish there was a program somewhere that would even out the volume of the songs for me on my iPod. Some songs are louder than others.
'Lose Control' by Missy Elliott totally blew my ears away after listening to 'History Repeating' by the Lemonheads/Shirley Bassey the other day. I'm not sure why, but Missy was wayyy wayyy louder.
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