On Jan 13, 2006, at 10:12 AM, Milton Aupperle wrote:
On 13-Jan-06, at 10:56 AM, Roger Howard wrote:
On Jan 13, 2006, at 8:01 AM, Chris Kennon wrote:
Hi,
Flip4MAC causes some nasty problems, with QT pro the save
functions are disabled from the player drop-down menu. This
problem cost about 4 hours debugging.
Man, if I didn't know better I'd be thinking "trojan horse" right
about now. I've had a plague of crashes in both Safari and
Mail.app related to this component, including on a G5 workstation
that I bought two days ago and has fresh installs of everything.
I've never had a problem with it (G5 duals, G4 laptops) on QT 7.0x
(including 7.04) and 10.3.x or higher (including 10.4). It's been
rock solid.
Well - my snarkly "trojan horse" comment aside (and I was kidding, of
course) - I did have tons of problems with it, and I'm definitely not
alone.
Kudos to Telestream for fixing it quickly!
The upside for Quicktime is this:
With Microsoft out of the way as a cross-platform media solutions
vendor, and Real still struggling to get anyone to care, it would
seem that Apple has a prime opportunity now to establish Quicktime
as *the* cross-platform media delivery system, which will be quite
desirable to a lot of content providers at this point. Of course
we're still missing a set of DRM tools; if there was a better,
smarter time for Apple to move on that front I can't imagine one.
So Apple, what's up man?
3% Market share doesn't cary much wait.
Last I checked QT had far greater than 3% - I know you're referring
to the Mac OSX market share, but I think you're underestimating the
desire to have a cross-platform solution that supports the Mac OS, as
well as underestimating the reluctance to hang all one's bets on
Microsoft - Microsoft has succeeded in spite of this because they
have a good and deep product, but they are susceptible if there was
ever any real competition for that space (as the success of iTunes
has proven well).
And I'm certainly not declaring a win for the Mac or Apple in this
situation, only a rare opportunity for them to compete in a market
(media distribution platform) they've certainly struggled to stay
relevant in. Even if they moved quickly and smartly there are no
guarantees; but they certainly have an opening here.
