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Study Says No Future for Video iTunes
eldavojohn writes "Reuters is running a story on a study that claims "Online video sites that sell shows and movies such as Apple Inc.'s iTunes will likely peak this year as more programming is made available on free outlets supported by advertising." Many channels have wised up to offering their content hosted from their own sites for free — with commercials — to cut out iTunes as the middle man. End result? Predictions that services like iTunes-Video have no future."
Ok, you're not AC so I'll bite. Number one, OSX really does just work for me. I like Linux, I like CentOS for my servers, but I've spent far too much time trying for instance to get my old yet beautiful SGI-1600SW LCD monitors to work; no joy. Number two, I have no trouble supporting family members who use a mac, even a laptop even with wireless. Number three, can I plug my Mini-DV camera into my firewire port and get the video downloaded, edited and burned on a linux laptop? Full disclosure, there was an issue with a recent System Update that borked Quicktime for my camera and I had to download the Quicktime installer and re-stall. Four, I can look at most of Darwin, I can rebuild the kernel (again I think) - but I don't have too. Honestly the best thing about Linux for me is that there is much more software that now works nicely on my mac! Lastly and this is an earnest question - is there a C++ dev environment that compares favorably to Xcode. The best I've seen so far is CDT in Eclipse, and as much as it pains my to say it, neither work better than VisualStudio for native platform development. Even later - you can compare our IDs, I've been here awhile.