Date: 2009-01-03 19:16:49 Created: 2009-01-03 14:14:27
I tried to imagine being an average Ipod-owning Windows-only user.
There are a couple of those, after all.
From that perspective, it's not hard to see Apple as a company making a great mp3 player, but forcing you to into
bloated
How many megabytes should a music jukebox be? Should it require the download of movie player software? Should it come with its own update system? Should that system push other software?
non-standard
Well, just look at it.
and unstable software in order to be able to use said mp3 player.
From that direction, it all smells of old-school Microsoft from afar. It probably would take surprisingly little for everyone's perception to swing over that way if the right/wrong thing happened ...