[MacDV] Re: iMovie3 for OS 9 as well?

[Mark Florida]

I have a lot of the same feelings about OS X...  I *HAVE* to use it at work now to manage our new buggy Mac OS X Server...  It's crashed more in the past few days than my old AppleShare IP server crashed in the last few months... ugh...  progress...

And the DVD issue...  Apple could very easily sell their own FireWire SuperDrive with their own special chip in it to use with iDVD, but they won't.  Simply because they make way more money from even the SuperDrive eMac at $1499 than they would selling a peripheral people could add to their "older" systems (less than 1 or 2 years old in some cases) for only $399 or so.  The licensing fee is very small (not sure exactly how small), and this is why there are so many cheap MPEG apps for Windoze.  Anyway, when you buy the DVD-R drive you pay this fee (right?).

Having said that, I think Apple is making a lot of wise choices looking towards the future.  The way they are building the OS, the way new apps are written, in a few years Microsoft will be trying to figure out how to build an OS that's *HALF* of what the Mac OS will be...  that's my prediction...

Now they just gotta get the hardware going a little faster...  ;-)  And optimize the OS until it hurts!

- Mark 

On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 08:01PM, <SLarsonIH at aol.com> wrote:

>I disagree. I'd pay the $100 (and I don't think it would be anywhere near 
>that high) vs the $1000 for the software you need now or $2500 and up for a 
>new machine. It is not a licensing issue. It is a "Buy a new Mac issue". 
>Almost every step they've taken has been to force users to buy new Macs. It 
>took one programmer a very short period of time to make it so OSX could be 
>used on older Macs. And no, I'm not suggesting that Apple pour time and money 
>into supporting/updating OS9.x, etc.
>
>I've got OSX installed on my mchine, and to be honest, maintaining it uses a 
>lot more of my time than any previous Mac OS. I don't like that it forces me 
>to use my Mac the way Apple wants me to, instead of the other way around. 
>There are a number of other issues and bad experiences with OSX that 
>leave/left a bad taste in my mouth. I boot into OSX every once in a while 
>(usually a new promising app) and after getting frustrated, I can't wait to 
>get back to OS9. I'm not even going to get into the "not supported" issue. I 
>think it's great that Apple has migrated to OSX. I will too, once they 
>resolve things, or I get a new Dual whatever.
>
>STeve
>
><< It's an MPEG-2 licensing issue.  Period.  If they wanted to make iDVD 
>burn to ANY DVD-R they could -- and they would charge you for the 
>license fee.  And you'd be pissed.  The licensing fee is embedded in 
>the cost of Mac's that come with a super drive.  It's easy to override 
>-- except that Apple legal will go after you (and have) if you tell the 
>secret.  And they should.
>
>Those of us with Super Drives paid for an MPEG-2 license.  Those who 
>buy external DVD-R burners didn't.  It's really that simple.
>
>Maybe Apple should offer an iDVD app for external burners and charge 
>US$100 (or whatever).  But you'd still be pissed.
>
>Randy >>
>
>
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