[LINK] University of Missouri to require iPod touch or iPhone for Journalism students

[Ivan Trundle]

On 25/05/2009, at 9:07 PM, Brendan Scott wrote:

> Ivan Trundle wrote:
>> On 25/05/2009, at 6:01 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>>
>>> At 05:51 PM 25/05/2009, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>>>>> There are countless university podcasts which are free, but
>>>>> unavailable to me because they're only on itunes.
>>> Are they locked down completely?
>>
>> No
>>
>>> Are there iTune converters?
>>
>> Yes.
>
> Neither of these is to the point.  There is no itunes client for  
> linux so putting things on itunes automatically excludes me.


How a university chooses to distribute its lessons is entirely up to  
the university. If there was not a critical mass of people who use  
iTunes, it would not make the choices that you bewail.

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