Re: hating Apple

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: hating Apple
Date: 01:57 on 26 Feb 2004
> What always got me about iTunes (warning: blissfully released from the
> Apple "bodysnatchers"-style thrall thanks to kindly neighbourhood
> burglar scum) was that it couldn't *actually*, *reliably* play mp3s
> without skipping.

Under which operating system? OS 9? Trying to do anything in the
"background" under OS 9 was insanity. OS 9 was a big fancy window
system with an OS that was little better than MS-DOS underneath.

I've never run into that on OS X.

> Apple should return to what they're really good at, which is dying
> quietly in the corner of the computer industry whilst players like
> Microsoft laugh and buy them out of trouble just to prolong the agony.

I'm sorry, but that never happened.

There's stuff above here

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