Jim's Rant: > But after that, I find it a tad two-faced of Apple that they will support > Windows 2000 for iTunes and the Music Store (an OS which is much older > than MacOS 9.x), but not Mac users running MacOS 9.x.
I think the decision to include Windows for the music store stems strictly from a business point of view. There are more Windows users world-wide than Mac users, and as of today, many have not adopted XP but remain with the last operating system W2000. Apple as a company must make its investment pay out and including Windows users with Ipods and access to the music store only makes sense. Supporting W2000 was just a necessity in order to capture the larger market share. I believe Apple is on the right track, they have been receiving great reviews from many PC industry sources. The over-all reviews have been very positive in these "corporate" technical sites, magazines and reports on OSX. I personally think it is the greatest operating system they have ever made and was glad to finally leave OS9 behind. I did have to sell all of my peripherals and purchase new ones and am currently upgrading all the software, but I think it is worth every cent I have spent. Lets face it, even the peripherals are better, my Epson scanner SCSI costs $1400 when I bought it and it scans at only 600 dpi (and is soooo slow), the new Microtek is 2400 dpi and I paid about $100 new. This goes for the new printer, the firewire external hard drive, etc, all are better, faster and cost less. I think Apple should be applauded on their decision to move to a modern operating system. It was a big move, totally rewriting a new system from the ground up took vision to make it successful and guts to do it in the first place. My $0.02... Wayne Schneck -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
