Comment Profitability (Score 1) 61
Your argument is that by making QT streaming servers more prevalent (by letting you do it on Win/Lin for free), you'd make QT content more ubiquitous.
That's not an awful argument, but it's still not an argument about profitability.
Your strategy has them losing money (for every Mac box not sold) in exchange for ubiquity.
But...Apple could be the #1 media format, and if it's not growing its OS share and not making fat profits, it will still still get pummeled for "dying".
Seems to me like a bad argument in the big picture.
The *real* strategy is making both QT *and* Mac boxen attractive to other users, and that seems to be what they're doing here.
That's not an awful argument, but it's still not an argument about profitability.
Your strategy has them losing money (for every Mac box not sold) in exchange for ubiquity.
But...Apple could be the #1 media format, and if it's not growing its OS share and not making fat profits, it will still still get pummeled for "dying".
Seems to me like a bad argument in the big picture.
The *real* strategy is making both QT *and* Mac boxen attractive to other users, and that seems to be what they're doing here.
