Christopher Mitchell wrote: > I can give you a concrete reason why some of my Win only friends are > edgy about having to install quicktime, and it is for the same reason I > am edgy about having to install any product from Real media: there is, > or at least has been in past installers, a tendency for QT to hijack > media playing, and this is (again, an an older release) even with being > careful about installation choices. > > If you get too many people gunshy of installing your product because it > either has given them experience of hijacking their media (whether by > user error or not-quite-okay install script) then they're not going to > change easily...
Agreed on the preception: QuickTime is very polite about file extensions, but Real is horribly rude and has established unfortunate expectations that bleed over to other products. Apple could do a better job of explaining the distinctions between the QuickTime and Real Player experiences. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution