Comment 99 cents is still expensive (Score 1) 1007
You can get used CDs on Amazon or eBay for $2.50.
There is also the wild allure of P2P sites which made Napster and Kazaa attractive. A search word turns up live tracks or tracks that have been remastered, or very rare tracks that you have no idea where they came from, like bootlegs or garage tapes. And, oh yeah, the Porno.
iTunes fills a commerical niche certainly but it is tame and predictable. It also runs on Windows 2000 or XP. I know quite a few people who haven't upgraded yet and have no intention to do so who run "low requirement" P2P software on Windows 98 with 32 MB of RAM.
There's also the bloatware problem. I don't know about other people, but Quicktime consistently crashes on me everytime I use it, whether its on Win95, 98, NT, or XP. I also have two or three versions of it on my machine because Apple can seem to engineer backward compatibility into one version.
So, based on my experiences with Qtime, my impression of Apple software is that it tends to be messy and leaves stray files littered all over the computer that are hard to clean up, like the defectory habits of a mad gerbil.
I don't need more left over pellets from Apple. And I don't need a $300 PDA with a mechanical hard drive that plays MP3s and sometimes doesn't know when it's fully charged or not; aka: iPod.
I think I'll stick with P2P.
There is also the wild allure of P2P sites which made Napster and Kazaa attractive. A search word turns up live tracks or tracks that have been remastered, or very rare tracks that you have no idea where they came from, like bootlegs or garage tapes. And, oh yeah, the Porno.
iTunes fills a commerical niche certainly but it is tame and predictable. It also runs on Windows 2000 or XP. I know quite a few people who haven't upgraded yet and have no intention to do so who run "low requirement" P2P software on Windows 98 with 32 MB of RAM.
There's also the bloatware problem. I don't know about other people, but Quicktime consistently crashes on me everytime I use it, whether its on Win95, 98, NT, or XP. I also have two or three versions of it on my machine because Apple can seem to engineer backward compatibility into one version.
So, based on my experiences with Qtime, my impression of Apple software is that it tends to be messy and leaves stray files littered all over the computer that are hard to clean up, like the defectory habits of a mad gerbil.
I don't need more left over pellets from Apple. And I don't need a $300 PDA with a mechanical hard drive that plays MP3s and sometimes doesn't know when it's fully charged or not; aka: iPod.
I think I'll stick with P2P.
