[MacDV] Re: Cheap trick

[Peter Tattersall]

On 31-Oct-03, at 9:25 PM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:

>
> On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 09:12  PM, Richard Dalziel-Sharpe 
> wrote:
>
>> Thats the way Apple does things. Right.
>>
>
> I like Apple a lot but it is a cash grab and short sighted at that, 
> the licensing can be handled the same way they handle mpeg2 in QT (QT 
> requires a $19.99 plug in to play the Mpeg2 format) with a plug in 
> that you would have to purchase in order to use a external burner.  
> They are able to handle the licensing with DVD Studio Pro and external 
> burners but they feel we should make loyal Apple fans either buy new 
> equipment or premium (expensive) software.
>
I'm missing something here. Apple basically bundles this software with 
the drives they sell. The idea is, buy our drives, we'll give you some 
useful software which will work with it. Buy someone else's drives if 
it bothers you so much to buy from Apple, then use the software THEY 
provide....