chrisw27 said:
Okay, so if Apple doesn't write a Windows Media player, they are a joke? Microsoft is the one you should blame for only writing decent codecs for their own operating system. They give Apple sh*t products that are buggy and outdated while Apple gives Quicktime and iTunes for Windows, and yet they work very well, are updated, and a lot of people like using them.
You're quite confused, I think. FYI: player != codec -
codecs are not 'made'
per OS whatsoever. Apple chose NOT TO license WM9 and include it in QT or anywhere else in its proprietary OS - Apple is the only one here you can blame.
The fact that MS bothered itself to write anything for Apple is already a gesture, that's it.
iTunes is a memory hog and a well-known buggy sh*t on Windows despite Apple is learning to code for Windows for years now.
Let's face it, Apple blew it, period. Jobs always like to play like somebody *realy* influental player - yet 4-5% market share gives you only 4-5% influence, nothing more, marketing and bold statements can only give you another few percent (pseudo-)influence, that's it.
All Microsoft wants to do is create their own formats and try to get everyone to use them, locking them into their products and OS.
Umm sorry
but which of the following platforms are fully supplied by only one company: OS X, Windows?
Don't be ridiculous:
the biggest, most selfish 'developer' is Apple. They want to supply you with office, with presentation, with video-editing, with audio production, with compositing, with photo editing software - EVERYTHING COMES FROM THE BIG Stev, err... BRO nowadays on OS X.
When MS included the browser, they killed Netscape, they've been sued - Apple's only escape its barely existing market share, otherwise it'd be 10x worse than Microsoft.
Of course, they are doing it for the same reason:
to own you and your expenses.
By using WM9/VC-1, you think everyone should switch to Windows OS from linux, freebsd, and the other OS to play HD-DVD media?
? Who said that? You can watch
VC-1 on linux, on BSD. The only platform you can't watch it easily is your beloved OS X - thanks to the loser Jobs.
Yeah, VC-1 is way ahead of H.264 in your Microsoft monopoly dreamworld.
Go and read up a little bit before you further get into this subject...
VC-1 is years ahead of h.264, period.
Microsoft loves to restrict everyone to their territory.
Hahahaha, this is the funniest statement an
Apple user can make.
:devil: