Sent from my iPhone >> > > Steve Jobs... he´s a very succesful creator > of "walled gardens" with an access fee and propietary technologies > (iTunes, Quicktime, etc) > > Don´t make go find the URL about Apple oposing the open VP8 codec and > vouching for the patent-encumebered MPEG4 instead. >
I'm not sure the author of the above has a grasp of the issues or facts. ITunes and Quicktime are both free and developed for Mac and PC by Apple. There are third party replacements for both, although if you want to take advantage of Apple updates to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod, you'll need iTunes. (Won't even need that when iOS5 is out.) The so-called "walled garden" is really a quality control issue. Apple learned long ago that third party developers who do not follow the guidelines set by Apple for it's software screw Apple. The reason why it was once true that some business programs were not available on Mac or were no good on Nac is because the developers, coming from a PD DOS mindset ignored Apple's rules for doing it right and their crappy programs did not only not work well but besmirched Apple's integrity. That sadness is going away-- Apple distributes software through it's App store and it gets tested before it gets through the fate. Crappy software will only be available on PC now. (Apple-written software has always been more stable and with a smaller footprint than the Microsoft behemoths.) There are no video formats I can't run on any of my Macs except a ten year old PowerBook. Alas, talking to a PC apologist who has never done a large project on a Mac is like trying to convince a Democrat that Ralph Nader might be better for the country in the long run. There's too much past investment (the opposite, I would think, of progress.) Dan Scanlan Mac since 1984
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