On Feb 9, 2004, at 10:24 AM, Stephen Quinn Barncard wrote:
Why this big negative about using Apple technologies? Quicktime works well, and is free.Quicktime is not available for Linux.
That's sad but true :-(
But there might be light at the end of the tunnel :-)
This is from http://www.macosrumors.com/ (ok, it's a rumour, but sounds pretty cool ;-):
Tuesday, February 3
Apple's 10.4 "Linux initiative" could work both ways. Today's crop of new reports on
this topic not only provide considerable confirmation that Apple is indeed pondering
a "Linux adoption" move, but hint at an angle we haven't covered yet.It has been
suggested that Apple could gain quite a bit of attention and support from the
GNU/Linux/OSS communities by porting more of its key pieces of software to
Linux: Xcode, Rendezvous, QuickTime, iTunes, and iChat have all been
mentioned. More on this later in the week as we continue to analyze this
particularly tantalizing line of inquiry....
Quicktime for Windows is a 16MB download.
For a shareware developer to require users to make a 16MB download could be a problem.
From the Apple QT page:
QuickTime 5 was downloaded over 100 million times by both Windows and Mac customers
in its first year. And QuickTime 6 is even more popular, reaching 175 million downloads in
less than 18 months. Every day, more than 300,000 people download QuickTime...
So, where the heck are these millions of users?
I know people who ARE having trouble installing QT, but in all of the cases (i have seen!)
they were running win98/SE/ME and the system was totally due to a re-installation!!!
So in general, there are no reasons to not install QT on your pc...
But maybe someone should write a "libMCI" though :-D
Alex Rice | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com
Regards
Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.major-k.de
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