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  • Apple to Experience Market Share Madness
    I'm kind of perplexed here--did I read the same article as everyone else? It sounds to me from the figures presented that Apple is stuck with the same market share for most of its products that it had this time last year. It also sounded like the main basis for believing there would be a Mac breakout is that Steve Jobs said so. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see a Mac breakout, but if I were a Mac fanboy I might be a little more concerned that, objectively speaking, the data isn't showing one happening yet...
    Apr 18 10:58 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Need Netflix Worry Over Apple's Movie Rentals?
    I'm not getting the choices some companies make--why not just make Netflix compatible with Apple OS and head off that problem for years to come--or at least carve out your share of business among Apple software users up front and enjoy the revenue stream? Why cheap out on developing the inevitable?
    Jan 16 18:10 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Movie Download Wars: Wal Mart Grasping at Straws
    How we evaluate these things may be a function of how skilful and savvy we are as computer users. In this case, Mr. Laljee's description of being required to watch the movies on his computer monitor once they are downloaded there and of how long it takes to download those file sizes are simply wrong. The movies will be mostly watched on an lcd tv hooked up to the computer drive with Windows Media Center as the enabling software. Plenty of people are doing it now, so it's not a big deal. In fact, astonishingly given all the attempts at Digital rights restrictions out there, many people are managing to record tv shows on their hard drives and play them back. and with the 120-400 GB hard drives which are becoming common on the newer pc's, keeping several movies on the main drive won't be a problem before they get moved to storage. As for download time, unless he misstated the size of the files, a 500mb file is a quick 5-minute download even on DSL. So the technical barriers discussed really aren't there.

    The real technical barriers would be more like the ones a friend of mine encountered when attempting to download music from the Walmart web site for his son just yesterday: the download kept getting interrupted, the Walmart software viewed the interrupted download as complete and wouldn't let him retry; the phone operator insisted he had already downloaded it; and the file wouldn't let itself be moved to another folder once it had been loaded. If the movie users encounter this, the service is doomed.

    But the thrust of his argument goes to some claims being made and believed by the talking head analysts at CNBC that somehow discs are going away in the future. Ain't happening, any more than web-based applications would do away with software or operating systems. As Steve Ballmer pointed out, software on the local machine will always be part of the loop; and in the movie and music world, hard storage copy will always be part of the loop.
    Feb 08 11:33 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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