Re: [NTLK] [OT] Quicktime

From: Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_comcast.net)
Date: Mon Apr 19 2004 - 15:34:50 PDT


On Apr 19, 2004, at 6:30 AM, Joel M. Sciamma wrote:

>
>>> One that does thought it was a virus that was preventing his machine
>>> from booting. (Must do the QA a bit better there...)
>
>> Guess he needs some help then.
>
> He's not getting it from Apple with this bug. He will be very wary of
> any
> Apple product in future seeing it as a "contaminant".
>

I think the point is that it's far more likely the bug is with the
myriad OS patches or with some spy/adware or with any number of other
things. That's why I've always maintained that Windows is so much
harder to program for. There's any number of people out there that
think they can program -- but look at all the half-baked dreck out
there for Windows. (And this isn't a biased opinion, plenty of Windows
users have told me that they cringe when folks argue how much more
software there is for Win than for Mac -- the numbers are much closer
if you limit yourself to the stuff that's of good quality.) That's a
burden that Redmond bears for their market dominance. But it remains
that, given Apple's large software operations, the quality control on
QT is far better than much of what the average Windows user has loaded.
  So your friend should look elsewhere for the problem, load QT, and
then be able (with WMP & Real likely already there) to access 100% of
the multimedia content on the 'net, instead of 2/3 or whatever the
ratio du jour is.

- Eric.

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