[MacDV] Re: The 20inch LCD Conspiracy

[Matthew Guemple]

Amen to that. We pay these heavy prices for plug and play beauty and 
the all of a sudden they start this nickel and dime thing. It's a 
strange turn of corporate culture to be sure. What I really don't get 
is why they used to run all these ads with a GL -1 plugged into a 
TiBook, and then turn around and (until now) basically make it 
impossible for you to burn with one... using their really nifty 
simplified app.

Really what were they thinking? Was that ad meant for only George 
Lucas? Never mind that fact that the stuff is really expensive, but 
honestly how many people can afford the luxury of a good laptop and a 
tower...

But hey at the end of the day, you can pry it from my cold dead hands...



On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 06:44 PM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:

> What bugs me about Apple is their nickel and diming, sell half 
> developed OS and then charge you to get it working right, force people 
> to upgrade if they want to burn DVD with an older G4 laptop by not 
> recognizing external DVD players. I think the iDVD software could be 
> made to require the purchase of a plug in (similar to making Quicktime 
> into Quicktime Pro) so that the licensing issue is dealt with legally. 
>  The other way would be for Apple to offer a over priced external 
> drive that includes the license.
>
> Gerhard
> On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 11:24  AM, Steven Rogers wrote:
>
>>
>> On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 08:51 AM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:
>>
>>> I agree with everything you said and I am a 100% OS X user but find 
>>> the tactics used by Apple offensive for reasons of principle.
>>
>> What is that principle?
>>
>> SR
>>
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