On 16/1/04 10:06 AM, "L Pohl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 16/1/04 9:44 AM, "Peter Hinchliffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Well I have, and all I can say is Good Lord!
>> 
>> Please, please Apple, get ITMS working in Oz before we are engulfed in
>> this Windows-only rubbish.
>> 
>> The erroneous claim that there is no WMA player for the Mac is bad
>> enough, but then they (Telstra) have managed to make sure that the key
>> links in the Flash-based database menu don't work on the Mac, so
>> whether or not they believe there is a Mac-compatible media player
>> ceases to be an issue. The site is simply unusable on a Mac (I've tried
>> Safari, Mozilla, OmniWeb and Internet Explorer).
>> 
> 
> A telling quote from Justine Milne, BigPond managing director:
> 
> "iPods don't (work with BigPond Music) - that's Apple's device and it's an
> Apple ambush, I guess the question is would you be prepared to bet against
> Microsoft? I wouldn't," Mr Milne said.
> 
> <http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8396912%255E15306,00.html>
> 
> Ambush ??? And this jerk is the MD of bigPond. Shudder.
> 

Obviously market share for mp3/wma players means absolutely nothing to this
moron!

Then again, it *is* from Telstra.... If it is anything like their broadband,
they will suck you in with great offers to start with, then change the
rules!  Anyway, nobody still has managed to get the Beatles online yet :-)

Seeya

Rod!