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  • RE DrMac: You forget that the iPod business is their biggest profit-making business at the moment. Yet another reason why killing the iPod would be suicide. There's plenty of room for both.
    Great Britain (UK)mickeymoose had this to say on Jan 31, 2007 Posts: 6
    Has the iPhone Killed the Video iPod?
  • I know what you mean about Bungie, we need another like it! But I was really talking about Microsoft Game Studios (publish Age of Empires, Perfect Dark Zero, many many many others).
    Great Britain (UK)mickeymoose had this to say on Jan 31, 2007 Posts: 6
    Why Apple Really Needs to Do Something Special Now
  • In all the Mac vs PC ads, the Mac is promoted as the 'fun' one. However, the 'fun' element is incomplete due to the pain of gaming on the Mac, and will remain so until Apple does something about it - starting a studio à la Microsoft would help, as would making a DirectX-alike to encourage Mac developers. At the moment, Mac developers rely on OpenGL, which is becoming outdated compared with DirectX 10. Perhaps even integrate DirectX, although I doubt Microsoft would like that.... However, with the approach of Cider amongst others, it is becoming easier to port games to Mac, so maybe, just maybe, it will become a good platform. We can hope.
    Great Britain (UK)mickeymoose had this to say on Jan 31, 2007 Posts: 6
    Why Apple Really Needs to Do Something Special Now
  • I disagree. Apple would be stupid to invent such a groundbreaking technology (patent pending, no less) and only use it in one product. Besides, the iPhone only has a few GB of memory - taking out the phone/WiFi stuff would allow a hard drive to be put in there without making it too fat. And now that you can get full movies through the iTS, they are gonna make sure that you can put lots on your iPod, not just a few. The number of people with >8GB stuff in their iTunes is definitely sizeable. Just look at the number of people who bought the hard disk iPod. People want to put everything they have in the palm of their hand, not just selected things. For a start, it is a pain when you let your iPod choose your music (I have a shuffle), then go "Wait, I want to listen to that track, it's awesome but I haven't heard it in ages" and it isn't there. Finally, people see the iPhone as a phone (it's got phone in the name...). They need to sign up to an expensive monthly contract to get it, as well as paying the huge base price. This will exclude a large number of people, for example who are on pay as you go. If they fall into the 'wanting an ipod, not really a phone or a pda' category, they won't be too pleased to pay monthly for the privilege of not using all the iPhone's features. These people (me included) would lap up an iPod in no time. Apple *will* release a video iPod. I'd be prepared to wager £20 on it.
    Great Britain (UK)mickeymoose had this to say on Jan 31, 2007 Posts: 6
    Has the iPhone Killed the Video iPod?
  • Maybe I meant viable for my patience ;-) Safari is fairly snappy, even with Saft. Firefox isn't, and takes oodles of memory, and takes ages to start, and is generally fairly bulky. I understand the attraction to it with all the extensions, and I use it on PCs, but I just can't get on with it on my mac. I've got 1GB memory, mind, although I do tend to have about 6 other programs open at the same time. Maybe that's got something to do with it. Anyway for me on my system, Safari is nicer to use.
    Great Britain (UK)mickeymoose had this to say on Oct 11, 2006 Posts: 6
    5 Top FireFox Plug-ins
  • "Let’s be completely honest, Safari RSS is an okay browser, but compared to the likes of Camino, Opera and Firefox it is, well, it belongs in the zoo!" That may be true, but for those of us on slightly older macs (800Mhz g4) Safari is the only viable browser. Firefox moves like a snail in honey, Camino isn't much better (but then doesn't have extensions so is redundant), and Opera... what? I haven't touched that since OS 9
    Great Britain (UK)mickeymoose had this to say on Oct 11, 2006 Posts: 6
    5 Top FireFox Plug-ins