On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 10:47 AM, Wayne wrote:
Jim's Rant:
But after that, I find it a tad two-faced of Apple that they will support
Windows 2000 for iTunes and the Music Store (an OS which is much older
than MacOS 9.x), but not Mac users running MacOS 9.x.
I think the decision to include Windows for the music store stems strictly
from a business point of view. There are more Windows users world-wide than
Mac users, and as of today, many have not adopted XP but remain with the
last operating system W2000. Apple as a company must make its investment pay
out and including Windows users with Ipods and access to the music store
only makes sense. Supporting W2000 was just a necessity in order to capture
the larger market share.
I also expect that supporting Win2K was pretty much a 'no-effort' deal...WinXP is largely WIn2K with more drivers, a gaudy new interface, and a few new features. Very few programs will run on one, but not the other.
OS 9, to Apple is like supporting Win98, which they're not doing, (and which is causing considerable howling in the Windows world as well. LOTS of folks still run Win98 for some ungodly reason...I suspect they like hitting themselves in the forehead with a ball-peen hammer a lot, as well. Win98 (and worse WinME) are truly awful. Win2k is actually usable.)
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