--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sparaig wrote: [...] > > QuickTime is more than just a collection of codecs. > > > AV Programming 101: QT *is* mainly a set of codecs. True you have a QT > Player but other players on other platforms can use the codecs to > playback QT files. They can also use the codec to encode QT files. And > QuickTime Windows has existed for years.
Eh. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/whatsnew.htm Linux "quicktime" has all these features? > > I'm not a big fan of Linspire but they did > > > >> license a lot of proprietary drivers and codecs so those things can be > >> run on Linux and they now have a free version called FreeSpire. A lot > >> of those products you list were done by Apple. Linux still has a bigger > >> market share than Apple. I don't think Apple will ever amount to > >> anything but an also-ran with it's niche market. It would have much > >> bigger market share today if Jobs hadn't taken the helm again. > >> > >> > > > > Heh. I'm no fan of Jobs, but that's a pretty outrageous assumption. > > > He stopped the licensing of the OS to other machine builders. That > could have lead to more users. Instead he was a "hog" (that's a term in > the industry). > It allowed the Mac hardware to morph without any kind of consideration for existing licensing agreements. This was a good thing, in the long run. > And so you put an Apple logo on an MP3 player and market the hell out > it. That's what Apple is more know for these days. Apple Marketing has been world-class since the original Mac 1984 ad, which is considered the first modern super-ad ("ad of the century" and all that). > > > >> As an aside I get a kick out of the Apple PC guy and Mac user ad as > >> anyone who has ever been to a Mac World know that the Apple users look > >> more like the PC guy. :) > >> > >> > > > > But most Mac users never go to MacWOrld. > > > Only a few thousand. :) When I went to Fry's last year the Saturday > after MacWorld (remember there is one in San Francisco) I saw a > completely different set of customers than I was used to there. I then > realized these were Mac users and sure enough the were converging on the > Mac area. Macs are way overhyped but then as I stated above Apple is > about marketing. >
