[MacDV] Re: QuickTime 7

[Timothy Luoma]

On Apr 30, 2005, at 5:52 AM, Daniel Beck wrote:

> On Apr 30, 2005, at 4:11 PM, Peter Tattersall wrote:
>
>> No, you have to buy the pro license all over again.
>
> Lame.
>
> Thanks for the info.

You think that's bad, I bought QTPro6 for Windows and then switched  
to Mac... and had to buy QTPro6 for Mac!

"Hi, thanks for spending $3k to switch to Mac OS X, please insert $30  
to keep the app that you bought on Windows."

And what do we get for a discount having previously registered QTPro?

NOTHING!

Are there ANY other programs on OS X that make you buy a new version  
every time??


see http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/16

start reading at "There's one final unpleasantry to deal with"

My favorite part:

"This is just criminally stupid. It mars the otherwise exemplary out- 
of-box experience for buyers of consumer Macs especially. Having  
spent well over $4,000 on my current crop of Mac hardware (plus $80  
for iLife '05 plus who knows how much for the Mac OS X Public Beta  
through Tiger), I find it personally insulting that I'm still not  
entitled to the "wonders" of QuickTime Pro.

Yeah, sure, I can download a third-party movie player application and  
find a third-party QuickTime browser plug-in. I can watch movie  
trailers in iTunes, which will go full-screen even without the magic  
"pro" key. Or I can google for an illegitimate QuickTime Pro key  
code. I can even shell out the $30. But it's not the money that  
bothers me, it's the principle. I'd be happy if Apple simply raised  
the price of its hardware by $30. On a $4,000+ bill, it's practically  
a rounding error."

TjL