I totally agree! Educating the target audience is really important. Way too often the target audience's view has already been manipulated by what they have already seen, heard, or experienced. Granted I think Banshee is a great alternative to iTunes and personally I even use it since it's hooks up to Amazon MP3. However, there aren't very many programs that you can say they are a real alternative. Using Shotwell or F-Spot instead of Lightroom is a great example. Shotwell is a great application, but it's are nowhere near a real alternative to Lightroom from a photographers perspective. So I think we have to be careful about which programs we consider to be alternatives.
Regards, John -----Original Message----- From: ubuntu-advertising-bounces+john=verticalcue....@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:ubuntu-advertising-bounces+john=verticalcue....@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Barry Drake Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 12:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-advertising] Research required ... On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 18:12 +0100, K.de Jong wrote: > I think this is somewhat of a useless alternatives list. > Because if you cannot find an alternative it often is > for reasons that these systems use propitiatory format. But the user needs to know! This is the whole point. And more often than not there is an excellent alternative. Today, my son-in-law brought his shiny new iPod Shuffle around. We plugged it into my PC and it 'just worked'. He was very impressed with Banshee - took to it better than iTunes. Now, iTunes is marketed as the ONLY software to work the iPod range. We need to have all the information out there. But I think I've said all of this before. Regards, Barry. -- What do you see when you use your Computer? Same old thing? ...There IS a Better Way! Ubuntu! _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-advertising Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-advertising More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-advertising Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-advertising More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
