I'm not particularly a Microsoft fan, in fact, I'm far from it. Yet my experiences with Apple has been equally bad if not worse. As I've blogged before, I think the iPod is a total POC and Apple should be shot for selling something with such incredibly bad software on it. iTunes and Quicktime have also caused me more pain than gain. Most recently I was trying to scan images from my network attached scanner. As the web based print server delivered the images in TIFF format, the Quicktime plugin handily scarfed the image. But I wanted the image in a file so my son could manipulate it for a school project. To do that with Quicktime would have required purchasing Quicktime Pro! Just to save an image to disk that I created with something other than Quicktime. Brilliant piece of work Apple. On top of this, the Quicktime plugin manages to kill both Internet Explorer and Firefox. Nice work guys!
Some other time I'll write about trying to use iTunes on a library of thousands of songs. Combine that with their proprietary DRM system, has convinced me to become Apple free. All this stuff may work just great on OS X, but I don't really care to run OS X. So Apple, take your software somewhere else.
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