Post 7 - Reaction to the reading (Week 3)

Wow, if I ever need a testimonial for QuickTime, I'll know where to go. I've never been fond of QuickTime but I'm also a true-blue Windows fan. Apples make my head ache. His claims that QuickTime works great on Windows with seamless updates has not been my experience. It seems like every time I open a QuickTime link, it has to go download something and then tries to change all of my music file associations. Admittedly, I seem to recall Windows Media doing the same thing.

But the worst offender for this was Apple iTunes - it went through and reformatted all the music on my hard drive without giving me a clear warning that it was actually converting the files. Of course, this happened when I installed my iPod software. Apple does have a monopoly on some things, for good reason :) I love my Shuffle but I'd NEVER buy an Apple computer. And QuickTime has too many Apple characteristics to be comfy for me, at least, so far. Even iTunes is irritating to use. I can never remember what all of the various squiggles mean.

Back to QuickTime, I'm not sure I'd trust it. Given my focus group of one, I would only use it in conjunction with other options. Given what Drew said about Flash being able to morph shapes and do funky stuff with video, it doesn't seem to have much in the way of unique features, no matter what the author might think.