sowens
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Originally posted by Madkins007
b. There are a growing number of movies that need QuickTime Pro and I choose to not pay for a movie viewer unless it has a lot more to offer than Pro seems to (unless I am reading the wrong ads for it.)
Hmm, I've run across movie clips that require Quicktime 5, which has a free upgrade, but not Quicktime Pro.
In any case, Quicktime Pro includes Quicktime authoring capability, the ability to save Quicktime movies to the local machine, and some other controls that the free one doesn't. For $30, I think it's reasonably cheap, but then again I've been thinking about playing with Quicktime authoring anyway.
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Originally posted by Madkins007
Mac vs. Windows? Heck, I can't stand either. Both have made some real bone-head moves; both have stolen a lot of their features from others; both are a lot more "use only us or die, pig" in their corporate philosophies than I would think is smart; both are feeding into the rush towards newer, hotter technology and forgetting their roots and old installed user bases.
Having been in both/all camps (I've run Linux as well), it's my opinion that the Mac "camp" is more like the Linux camp than MS. Both Linux & Mac seem to take the attitude of "If you use our stuff, fine. If you don't, that's fine too". The difference is that Linux tries to be compatible with everybody (note tries, I don't think they do a particularly good job of it), whereas Apple only remains compatible with itself.
As far as the "rush to newer, hotter technology and forgetting their roots": well, that's technology. As things change, they're always going to obsolete what came before. Since going to OSX, I've learned I need to replace my printer (a Laserjet 4P I've had since the 80's) and I'll need to scrap my SCSI peripherals because the company that made my Firewire to SCSI converter isn't going to support it under OSX. It's just the nature of the beast.
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