[MacDV] Re: The 20inch LCD Conspiracy

[Steven Rogers]

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 01:10 PM, SLarsonIH at aol.com wrote:

> Huh? All they have to do is copy the parts of the code in DVD Pro 
> which will let you use an external Pioneer 103/104/105 to burn DVD's, 
> and paste it into iDVD. They don't, because you will either have to 
> pay the grand for DVD Pro or buy a new machine. Period.

That is so stupid it hardly merits a response. Do you actually know 
anything about the code base for these two products, or are you just 
making this up? What makes you think there is some well-defined block 
of code that can simply be "pasted" into iDVD? Do you know anything 
about what it takes to split a software baseline and create two copies 
for deployment on two different platforms?

Sounds like your position is:  people who don't give me what I want are 
bad - if I can dream that its easy, then its somebody else's job to 
make my dream come true.

Aside from that, just assuming that there were one line of code that 
would make DVD burning work on an 8600, why is Apple obligated to give 
that to anyone? It is absolutely ethical for Apple to restrict new 
capabilities to new platforms to "boost" sales. That's what it means to 
own a business - having the moral and legal right to decide what 
products you make and what the product does.  (unless you're Microsoft).

This is exactly the same kind of rant that MS is subjected to, and 
amounts to a rejection of business property rights.

SR