[CentOS] trouble playing quicktimes at apple.com/trailers

[fred smith]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 04:49:32PM -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:38 PM, fred smith
> <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
> 
> > Doggone those Apple folks. why would they be so stingy as to PREVENT people
> > from using otherwise-compatible players from seeing the trailer? Just
> > doesn't make sense in any way other than sheer meanness. I mean, what real
> > business justification could there be?
> 
> Apple is weird that way. They tried to do the same thing with the Palm
> Pre -- keep them from working with iTunes seemlessly. Okay, every
> iTune Apples sells they make money, so why keep Palm Pre users from
> making them money? Odd.

yeah. similar to when Yahoo kept tweaking their messaging protocol to
prevent MSN messenger from connecting to it. Or AOL would mess with the
AIM protocol to keep GAIM from connecting. and so forth.

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