Re: trouble playing quicktimes at apple.com/trailers

[Rainer Duffner <rainer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12.09.2009 at 23:49 Ron Blizzard wrote :

> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:38 PM, fred smith
> <fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Doggone those Apple folks. why would they be so stingy as to  
>> PREVENT people
>> from using otherwise-compatible players from seeing the trailer? Just
>> doesn't make sense in any way other than sheer meanness. I mean,  
>> what real
>> business justification could there be?
>
> Apple is weird that way. They tried to do the same thing with the Palm
> Pre -- keep them from working with iTunes seemlessly.


Well, I assume they did this because Palm is making money from the  
Pre, but they probably "forgot" to license iTunes for the use of  
syncing with the Pre.

I can't blame Apple for being "unhappy" with that.
In addition, if they would let Palm get through with that, other  
companies would soon follow. Maybe at some point, Apple will choose to  
actually allow that (maybe via some API), but currently this is not  
the case.

I should say that I do own an iPhone, together with most other people  
at my workplace (few exceptions, like the boss - but his wife has one)  
and it does most of the stuff I would have wanted from a Linux-powered  
phone.
Unfortunately, that one never materialized.



Rainer
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