Re: Steve Jobs doesn't care about brown people

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From: David Champion
Subject: Re: Steve Jobs doesn't care about brown people
Date: 22:02 on 06 Nov 2005
* On 2005.11.06, in <20051106200002.GE27557@xxxxxxx.xxx>,
*	"Ricardo SIGNES" <rjbs-hates@xxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> 
> They are different.

Indeed; yet:


> When I start typing the artist into track info in iTunes, and I type
> "José" do not autocomplete to "Jose A. Castañeda."  I know you think I
> can keep typing to correct you, iTunes, but you are wrong.  If I keep
> typing, I end up with "Jose Urfe" and then I have to go back to replace
> the e with an é.

In this case, iTunes might be doing you more of a service than you
think.  Well, maybe not you, but the broader collective of itunes users.
Can any of us even begin to guess how many Josés are shown as Jose in
IMD^H^H^HGracenote(tm)?  I'll stop with that.

Can you begin to guess how much I loathe Gracenote?  Ti Kan, you had a
fine idea, but coopting (a) a lot of people's labor and (b) a lot of
people's slack into a commercial service is sort of wormy.

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 -D.    dgc@xxxxxxxx.xxx        NSIT    University of Chicago

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