[MPA] STEVE JOBS IS GOD

[Thubten Kunga]

OK Peter. Point well taken. I'm just thinking that if someone is 
willing to wait a day, G3 compatibility is not an IMPOSSIBLE feat. I'm 
thinking of the tube iMac market. As for me, I'm a Cube driver and we 
are about to have dual 1.2 GHz Cubes from PowerLogix. So rendering the 
Movies and the MPEG-2 files will be pretty fast. Frustration is a good 
word to describe the feelings I have. Thanks.

A significant minority of us in the Cube world are searching for an OEM 
source of the 2x slot load DVD-R/CD-RW drive that Apple has just 
introduced in the 17" Aluminum PowerBook so we can develop a Cube 
compatible mounting bracket for our Cubes to become iDVD 3 and total 
iLife compatible.

Steve's not God. Just a Son of a Gun.

Kunga

On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 12:26  PM, Peter Kirn wrote:

> On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 01:52 PM, Thubten Kunga wrote:
>
>> Anyone who now introduces a stand alone a version of iDVD (3) that 
>> continues to ignore the huge market for external DVD-RW and G3 
>> compatibility is NOT GOD! Moreover, if anything he is much closer to 
>> the DEVIL or the Anti-Christ.
>>
>
> Hang on a second -- two separate points you're making here.
>
> A G3 processor is REALLY going to struggle with DVD burning, so 
> Apple's decision is hardly worthy of religious comparisons as far as 
> that goes. The encoding process is heavily optimized for the Velocity 
> Engine. Burning a DVD-R/W is one thing; DVD Movies is what you're 
> missing and that's because the G3 is way too slow for MPEG encoding 
> and authoring.
>
> As for crippling compatibility with FireWire drives, I am frustrated 
> by that. (See my article at www.powerpage.org on the new 
> applications.) I have a LaCie FireWire drive plugged into my PowerBook 
> G4/400 that has the same mechanism as the SuperDrive, and, sure, I 
> want to use it! Another caveat, though: my G4/400 would certainly be 
> PAINFUL for regular iDVD use. But it would be at least possible if 
> Apple would allow it.
>
> Anyway, this is still not a standalone iDVD. As I learned so gently 
> when I got flamed for writing a story Saturday in which I quoted CNET 
> saying this is the first time Apple has charged for upgrades, it 
> isn't. I should've remembered that iDVD 2 was also a fee upgrade. This 
> is still an "upgrade" rather than a standalone product -- something 
> Apple could stand to publicize better.
>
> Despite my frustration, let's keep in mind that Apple has squeezed 
> slot-loading SuperDrives into PowerBooks starting at $2600 (after 
> yesterday) and eMacs starting at $1500 (or is that $1700, can't 
> recall). In other words, Jobs may not be God, but I say his eternal 
> soul is probably safe.
>
> For now. :-)
>
> Peter