Well Jobs does make bags of money from selling media as he does...I know he's leaving out a lot of people though who know for now, BR is a necessary item in any serious entertainment system. Also he was talking about licensing two years ago, BR has taken off, there is no other option on the market anymore. This mac mini would have been the perfect device to launch a BR line of macs for entertainment systems.
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:00 AM, John Duncan Yoyo <[email protected]>wrote: > To quote Jobs -'Blue-ray is a bag of hurt.' The licensing was complex and > expensive in 2008. > > > http://www.betanews.com/article/Steve-Jobs-Bluray-is-a-bag-of-hurt-no-netbook-planned/1224007987 > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:51 AM, mike <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Be a lot more useful if the thing had a bluray player, 700 bux is > > outrageous > > for that hardware spec. > > > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Roger D. Parish < > [email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > At 1:23 AM -0400 6/16/10, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > Plus, I think that Apple plans to push the new > > >> Mini more as a vehicle for entertainment purposes than as a device for > > >> real work, which seems to me to generally be their new direction > > >> anyway. > > >> > > > > > > Along those lines, I note that supplied with the Mini is an HDMI-to-DVI > > > cable for connecting a monitor. Not a mini-DisplayPort cable, but an > HDMI > > > cable. > > > -- > > > Roger > > > Lovettsville, VA > > > > > > > > > > > > > ************************************************************************* > > > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy > ** > > > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/** > > > > ************************************************************************* > > > > > > > > > ************************************************************************* > > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > > ************************************************************************* > > > > > > -- > John Duncan Yoyo > -------------------------------o) > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
