Dan explained that if NetMD software is available only for Windows,
| Users of other platforms will assume
| that MD isn't compatible with their systems, and will just buy MP3 systems
| (just like they did while Sony was saying "our MD recorders are only
| compatible with Windows"). However, Sony has a history of being quite
| stupid when it comes to marketing.
So when you said that "MIniDisc will become platform-dependent" you meant
that bad marketing -- or false rumors left unchallenged by weak marketing --
will allow people to get the impression that there isn't anything to MD
except NetMD, so MiniDisc will *seem* platform-dependent to them?
Let's hope it doesn't come to that, but in places like alt.audio.minidisc
and MiniDiscussion posts asking whether one can record onto an MD from a
source other than a computer are common. It's not hard to imagine that the
next step beyond thinking that one can record only from a computer is to
think that one can record only with the advertised software.
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