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TheFriedlander wrote:

Yet, I wish they would add some support for sharing from iTunes, because while we have six other computers in the house running Windows XP, all my media is on my mac.

Have your tried ---> http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/connect360

It probably doesn't allow you to play Fairplay protected iTMS stuff but . . .

Cheaper, MS backed.

Ego doesn't make it look any worse on the TV. Stunted capacity does. They're both saturated with movie industry ego anyway, so Sony's doesn't make much of a difference to me.

Thrica wrote:

Ego doesn't make it look any worse on the TV. Stunted capacity does. They're both saturated with movie industry ego anyway, so Sony's doesn't make much of a difference to me.

I don't know, I just like the companies that I buy products from to be, I don't know - moral.  Sony has shown on numerous occasions this is not the case - far more then any other company that I can think of.

Goldfingiz wrote:

Actually I like them both and use both of their products daily. I can't understand how people could hate companies/manufacturers with such a passion.

One word:  Word.

That's a fine example of how I can hate some of the manufacturers with such a passion.

Pariah wrote:

… I think it is a damn shame that Apple chose to back the wrong horse but they did. No getting around it, Jobs screwed the pooch on this one.

Agreed.

Pariah wrote:

I think it is a damn shame that Apple chose to back the wrong horse but they did. No getting around it, Jobs screwed the pooch on this one.

Sounds like business as usual, they have been doing that since the original 68k processor.

Don't sweat it though cause Steve will just announce at a keynote a couple of years down the road that the mac he has been using contains an HDDVD drive and you'll have reason to upgrade

Farmsex wrote:

Goldfingiz wrote:

Actually I like them both and use both of their products daily. I can't understand how people could hate companies/manufacturers with such a passion.

Hate is not strong enough a word. Forget these media, computer companies.  They have not killed anyone with their products as far as i know.  However,  pharmaceutical companies have ACTUALLY KILLED  people with their drugs.  If pharmaceuticals were real persons, they'd poison their mothers to make a buck. EVIL ,  just plain evil.

The EPA standards for drinking water were set to for a mortality rate of something like 1 person in 10 million who drink the water for 50 years.  Zero deaths is not technically feasible in just about all areas.  There are risks in everything. 

avkills wrote:

HackerJax wrote:

Sounds like business as usual, they have been doing that since the original 68k processor.

That is kind of harsh. From an purely engineering standpoint the 680xx was a far better chip than what Intel had. For that matter, so is the PowerPC. But whatever, it doesn't really matter anymore.

Agreed. I meant to add to my post that Apple usually picks the better technology from a purely technical standpoint.  They bomb on picking the ones that win long term in the market and just add the tech later or transition on over at some point.

No big deal and they are still in business so its all worked out.

Last edited by HackerJax (2007-01-13 11:22 pm)

HackerJax wrote:

avkills wrote:

HackerJax wrote:

Sounds like business as usual, they have been doing that since the original 68k processor.

That is kind of harsh. From an purely engineering standpoint the 680xx was a far better chip than what Intel had. For that matter, so is the PowerPC. But whatever, it doesn't really matter anymore.

Agreed. I meant to add to my post that Apple usually picks the better technology from a purely technical standpoint.  They bomb on picking the ones that win long term in the market and just add the tech later or transition on over at some point.

No big deal and they are still in business so its all worked out.

Fair enough. Woz actually mentions Steve's ability to pick future tech in his new book, iWoz.

-mark

And now that Toshiba has 51 gig HD-DVDs, it looks like Blu-Ray officially has no chance of winning.

NAG wrote:

HackerJax wrote:

Pariah wrote:

I think it is a damn shame that Apple chose to back the wrong horse but they did. No getting around it, Jobs screwed the pooch on this one.

Sounds like business as usual, they have been doing that since the original 68k processor.

Don't sweat it though cause Steve will just announce at a keynote a couple of years down the road that the mac he has been using contains an HDDVD drive and you'll have reason to upgrade

He'd actually more likely admit that computers that already shipped had an hddvd drive and they'll sell you an updater that activates it.

Anyway, Jobs did push USB (remove of the floppy is arguable).

But yeah, Apple seems to have a knack for picking losing tech sometimes (DVD-RAM over Combo drives).

WEll good point on the USB.

Ok guys I stand corrected, apple dosen't always pick the dud technologies the first time out

He actually pushed out USB 1.0. Man, that was annoying. 1.1 didn't arrive until the Slot-load iMacs.