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RE: Dumb iTunes Question

OS X and OS 9 (IX?) are completely different beasts, I understand. I think OS X is Linux based, even. But, OS 9 and OS 8 are much more similar, and if you upgraded from one to the other (which upgrades are usually about half of retail for just buying it outright -- if you can, get the full version at an academic price, much cheaper!) you had to go out and get a new version of Photoshop, too.
 
And Mac users should be glad Microsoft is cutting them off. Any time I have to use Word or PowerPoint, I want to stab Bill Gates in the eye.
 
My thought, really, was (setting aside that the iTunes store is a marketing device to sell more iPods, especially to windows users) that Apple could make more money by formating some of their products to be more cross-platform. Offering mp3s from the iTunes store, for example. Oh well, I guess most mp3 players will eventually catch up and offer support for AAC. Then we'll see if apple still wants you to have an iPod to buy from their iStore.

Melanie Shannon <lilblueriver@hotmail.com> wrote:
i'm going to jump in over my head here-

what's so proprietary about it? do you want Mac programs to run on PCs?
(what Mac programs would you want for a PC, besides iTunes, which is
available for PC?) I don't really understand, because it seems to me that
Microsoft is the company trying to block out Mac, by cutting off the supply
of Microsoft programs for Mac platforms. but Mac doesn't really mind so
much, because the Mac programs seem to consistently run better. (i'm
thinking in particular of Internet Explorer being no-longer available for
Mac- but Mac's Safari program is pretty snazzy.)

i just KNOW this is going to spark computer-geek debate that's way over my
head, so i'm actually asking questions, here; not just arguing back. i was
a die-hard PC girl for years, though (and an art student PC girl, at that!),
who converte! d to Mac about two years ago. and i loooove Mac, now. their
stuff /works/, and i makes /sense/, and never drives me crazy, and it's so
pretty!


>>
I know, Mac users will argue that Apple is not proprietary, per se, it's
just that they're closer to the edge of the technology curve, while PC's are
lagging behind. But I have a hard time accepting any platform that makes you
upgrade all of your software when the operating system goes up a notch.
Windows may be backwards in a lot of ways, but at least it's backwards
compatible.
>>


well, i'm sure someone can answer this better than me, but i think when Mac
moved from OS9 to OS10, they made such a change in programming that they're
hardly related operating systems. am i right? wrong? bueller? what other
listee likes Macs? and do the upgrades actually cost $$? i didn't think
they did...

>>
And people wonder why Apple has only been able to capt! ure 3% of the computer
market. iPod and iTunes gave them a huge surge (3 million files transacted
and counting), and their marketing for the product is brilliant. But
competition from other manufacturers as well as iTunes limited application
to these units seems to me to be potentially restricting to Apple's
earnings. Which could leave them back at 3% in the not to distant future.
You know, after they're done making money hand over fist.
>>

my only answer to that is every friend i've had who's owned a non-ipod mp3
player has wound up tossing it aside to gather dust, or in one case, just
leaving it on a bus in australia on purpose. if "cutting edge of the
technology curve" means things actually work, i don't blame apple for being
a little possessive of it.


-melanie

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