From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>
Date: October 13, 2007 10:51:42 AM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Quicktime 7.2.0 does not Like My Astro IIDC .mov files
Hi Don;
On 13-Oct-07, at 12:58 AM, Don Singer wrote:
Was playing with the software before we get some clear nights (nearly
3 weeks straight of clouds), and saved a movie, only to have Quicktime
tell me that I need another component to play it and took me to an
Apple web site with different Codecs on it (e.g.Divx, Autodesk, etc)?
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On a side note, this idiotic behavior in QuickTime of not telling you what "thing" is missing and then sending you to a web site that won't have it anyhow, has been castigated at length by content producers and developers now for years on the various QuickTime Apple lists. When they announced this was their new solution, we all told them it was counter productive and would hurt QuickTime's acceptance in the market, especially since it takes YEARS before Apple will even list your codec on the page. And of course the user has no idea what codec they are looking for either, nor should they have to. But Apple simply don't care because it involves third party products that they can't charge for, so they aren't ever going to change it.
Since Steve came back, 3rd party developer relations are at an all time low and they aren't making life easier for developers at all. They now use developers as marketing tools by making it nearly impossible to support older OS X versions, so that we wind up supporting at most the very last release back from the current shipping one. So by restricting developers, we wind up forcing you to upgrade to Apples latest OSX version whether you want to or not to use our software.
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Talk to you all later..
Milton J. Aupperle
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