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Apple relents, sanctions custom ringtones!

So how do you know if Apple has made a big policy change and snuck it through the back door? Is it because:

  1. Porcine aviation establishes itself as a viable transportation mechanism.
  2. Chicken entrails begin to dance and rearrange themselves into oracular shapes while you're fixing up some nice korma.
  3. Apple sneaks in a new technical support page adding a "Share > Send Ringtone to iTunes" option to Garage Band.

The answer is, if you've been playing along at home, three. One more blow against the official iTunes extortion and shakedown store.

Thanks Jerrod



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Bill

I have a problem with my new Iphone and I would like to know how can give me a hand with this problem. I recently download it a theme from the Iphone for a ipod cover inside my iphone, but the problem is that the cover for the Ipod have taking over my screen and I don't have any button on my iphone I just have a black screen with out any button. It replace my network logo with is t-moble with the Ipod logo, and I can not get into my setting to remove this theme. What can I do to get back my Iphone cover screen?

Please send me a comment if you know what to do.

December 20 2007 at 12:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Linsay

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December 20 2007 at 7:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Rose

Almost as funny as Erica's post, definitely more NSFW:

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/iphone-users-get-garageband-ringtones-333940.php

December 16 2007 at 9:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
madog

@bob_c_b:

"Hi, my name is bob_c_b. I am so sick and tired of iPhone headlines here at TUAW that I find myself reading every one of them just so I can comment and express my anger. Please stop making me read these articles or I will be forced to visit another site and read all of their articles that I dislike."

What's this world coming to? If you don't like it, don't read it, don't waste your friggin' precious time. No one is making you, so stop it. And stop forcing people like me to comment on your stupid comments..........

December 15 2007 at 10:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
madhurdutta

this does not work with jailbroken iphone 1.1.1 and lates itunes and garageband but quicktime 7.3 wonder why?

December 15 2007 at 11:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Scott Reynolds

I recognize that Apple probably has their hands tied, at least officially, on the subject of using commercial product as ringtones. However, as someone vain enough to use music of my own composition on my phone, I've considered the inability to do this on the iPhone a significant weakness (and I told them so!). I'm very pleased with this change!

December 15 2007 at 10:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rob

Wasn't it obvious to everyone that Apple relented on this since iTunes 7.5.20 and 1.1.2???

It was pretty clear then that Apple back-peddled on this and decided to allow custom ringtones given their ease to implement and the fact that they cleared the way in BOTH iTunes AND the 1.1.2 firmware.

Why this is news now is beyond me.

December 14 2007 at 8:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jim of Davao

iTunes extortion?

It's sad that a hacker's been allowed to use TUAW as her soapbox.

December 14 2007 at 7:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Cleverboy

Erica... I'm honestly losing track of the iPhone announcements, but not you too! I think we discovered last month that iTunes 7.5 and firmware 1.1.2 enabled the ringtone rename thing-a-ma-bob again. Right? It all works. Garageband is definitely the icing on the cake, because it is THE signal of a policy change... at least now that they've released the ringtones store, and the Garageband update (and garnered the press they wanted). I dunno... I'm happy, but also... ambivalent. We just tick the checkbox. Next stop... 3rd party apps, GPS and more Bluetooth profiles hoo-haw!!!

December 14 2007 at 5:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
fak3r

How nice, and just before christmas? Really, why can't someone just create a moto4lin type app that lets you use the hardware you bought the way you want it to. I can create anything I want an put it on my Razr, I'm not going to pay 2$ for something that shouldn't cost anything in the first place - and someone who buys an iPhone deserves this right even more, what with having spent that kind of money!

December 14 2007 at 4:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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