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Video Reactions to Apple's Intel Switch

Posted by timothy on from the like-omigod dept.

Drew Mylrea writes "Here is a video of the reaction to the switch from Mac users at WWDC (small version). Has a somewhat revealing interview with Apple VP Phil Schiller regarding PC users putting OS X on generic PCs, and sums up the overall reaction to the news.(Requires QT 7.)"

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  1. Just got done watching by ike6116 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The video was well done, but really lacking actual information. Textbook example of a video blog. Video Reactions? I was expecting to see some interviews with _DEVELOPERS_ so we could get some insight about the thoughts of people that matter.

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  2. Re:How am I supposed to watch this video? by updatelee · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/preview/

    Its avalible in beta to windows

  3. Got it to work! by antdude · · Score: 3, Informative

    It looks like the videos require 7.0 codec. It was a clue from VideoLAN Client's crash message. I upgraded QuickTime Alternative to v1.50 beta 1. It worked. :)

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  4. What a waste of time. by mh101 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The video quality was very good, most likely due to QT7. But the content was somewhat lacking. I assume the "sums up the overall reaction to the news" part of the summary was referring to the one guy he talked to?

    I was expecting to see some shots of the audience as Steve made the announcement, to see the looks on everyone's faces (or maybe it was there, but too quick for me to notice).

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  5. no news = no subject by mylrea · · Score: 5, Informative

    The video was a response to the lack of content at the WWDC in general. There wasn't much as far as press went, which was why we started with the whole courtesy of Apple thing. I /.ed it because of Phil's response (it seemed fairly obvious that Apple had braced for the fact that there were going to be people running X on their PC's). Hope that clears some things up.

    As for the audience's reaction, I would actually say everyone was already braced for the news, when it hit everyone was ready to hear the plan. What was stunning was the lack of information during the keynote as to what the systems architecture would be like (not even spilling the guts on the OF / BIOS).

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  6. Re:Ok that's quite fun by jcr · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, Mathematica isn't really a Cocoa app. It's a massive engine that runs on a *lot* of platforms, and Wolfram has been careful to keep it portable.

    For most Cocoa apps, the port does come down to "Check the box, Build it" and you're done. There was quite a list of ported apps in the compatibility lab by the end of Monday, already.

    -jcr

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