Re: QuickTime-Users Digest, Vol 3, Issue 266

On Sep 23, 2006, at 3:04 PM, email@hidden wrote:

These guys are just the National Enquirer and Star for technical people. "Bat boy escapes from Government Research Lab", etc. Its just wild (though sometimes fun) speculation based on "evidence" that could support anything. Sometimes the speculation is more plausible than others. In this case, the iSight uses a Firewire port, not a USB port. You'd think he would at least get that right before he deduces Apple's entire 5 year business strategy from the presence of a port.

SR

The Inquirer?

Cringley said:

"For the last two weeks we've been discussing Apple's video download strategy and associated products, especially what Apple is calling for now its iTV video extender, which I have been calling the Video Express since I first wrote about it 18 months ago."

Of course we know Jobs just displayed his new box to move movies from computer to big wide screen TV. In case you missed it:

http://www.pvrwire.com/2006/09/13/video-of-the-apple-itv-unveiled-at-apple-s-its-showtime-event/

Then Cringley goes on and explains how Apple is able to brand consumers.

So you want refute everything Cringley's analyzed because he goofed about the USB port? Maybe he just came from Amazon - which lists 90 different brands/models of USB Web Cams. And of course now every dinky camcorder can connect up via USB.

Coming back to the question I posed - is this Quicktime's focus (for the next five years)? We know it's going to be a 7 trillion dollar business.

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