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thudfactor on
April 29, 2005
The “ArtMachine responds”:http://www.art-machine.org/blog/about/699/this-could-get-ugly to my “earlier post”:http://www.thudfactor.com/textpattern/1118/whats-wrong-with-apple on Apple. If you haven’t read these, this discussion is not likely to make sense.
AM may be right about the changing Apple culture, but it will take more than two or three years to reverse the impression of the last twenty and Apple is certainly not helping.
Among other things, he [...]
Posted in Diary
| Tagged Linux, media formats, Microsoft, Napster, Napster and Real, Operating System, operating systems, portable digital media players, portable media players, Steve Jobs, to-go services
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By
thudfactor on
April 28, 2005
My brother’s “comments here”:http://www.thudfactor.com/textpattern/1116/rhapsody-finally-upgrades about lack of Macintosh support for iTMS alternatives had me thinking again: why _isn’t_ there more support for the Apple OS? I used to blame it on MacOS being a “minority operating system,” but I’m beginning to think it goes deeper than that.
It is true that MacOS has a much smaller [...]
Posted in Diary
| Tagged Apple store, big-time application developer, hardware manufacturer, iPod software, large software manufacturer, Operating System, Steve Jobs
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By
thudfactor on
April 17, 2004
Steve Jobs on opening up both iTunes and the iPod to other programs:
The iPod already works with the No. 1 music service in the world, and the iTunes Music Store works with the No. 1 digital-music player in the world. The No. 2s are so far behind already. Why would we want to work with No. [...]
Posted in Technology
| Tagged iTunes Music Store, media files, Microsoft, Operating System, Steve Jobs
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By
thudfactor on
October 30, 2003
Well, after the Star Wars annoyance — it’s not a finished game, things are kinda wonky, yadda yadda — I ordered Final Fantasy XI, which was released stateside on Tuesday. The game arrived in my hot little hands about 4:30 pm.
I’d love to give you my first impressions of the game, *but I’m still installing*. I’m posting this around 11:00 [...]
Posted in What The...?!?
| Tagged ANOTHER COPY, AOL, Jesus Christ, Microsoft, Operating System, the Star, United States, USD
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