From: "Don Singer" <don@singerspdx.com>

Date: October 14, 2007 9:51:00 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Quicktime 7.2.0 does not Like My Astro IIDC .mov files

Milton:

I know it is frustrating......but, from a users perspective who uses

both Windows and OSX, things on OSX just seem to work...on Windows I

am always keeping my fingers crossed:)..one NEEDs to rant:)

D

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@...> wrote:

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)?

<RANT_TIME>

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.

</RANT_TIME>

Talk to you all later..

Milton J. Aupperle

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ASC - Aupperle Services and Contracting

Mac Software (Drivers, Components and Application) Specialist

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