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Just to clarify, there was a version of StarCraft for the Mac. It came out a little later, but I definitely spent a good deal of time my freshman year of college playing SC versus my PC using buddies.
It will be interesting to see if they end up releasing any new SC game for the consoles eventually (though I suppose them releasing it at all would be a good start), but I personally don't have much interest in playing an RTS without a keyboard.
I'm sorry, but this is going a little far. All this article says is that MS was trying to develop an mp3 player and that at one point they considered Apple as a partner. Apple would never have signed on for this. In case you haven't noticed, Steve Jobs is just a little bit interested in making the iTunes delivery chain the method for obtaining media content. Do you think that Apple couldn't put out a slick media center wrapped around the Mac Mini or something if they thought it was in their best interest (I mean a real media center with time-shifting TV content, etc., not just streaming a la iTV)? Or that the iPod couldn't support WMA/WMV?
And what would Microsoft have brought to the table anyways? I think it's pretty obvious from the Zune (and most of the other products that MS puts out) that they just don't have the creativity to come up with something as simple and elegant as the iPod, nor do they have the other skills necessary to pull it off. While MS is much, much, much larger (and could have poured tons of cash into it), it's not like Apple was so strapped for funds that they couldn't fund the development.
Now I'm not saying the iPod is perfect or anything, but considering the competition 5 years after launch (and the money that MS has poured into alternatives), it's hard to make a case that Apple could have done much better for themselves (although obviously there are features some of us consumers would like to see added).
Not to mention Al Gore with his "Information Superhighway"...
Now thats just crazy talk. The guy must be completely nuts, I mean, there's just no way that it could eve... wha? it is? I am?
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Just to clarify, there was a version of StarCraft for the Mac. It came out a little later, but I definitely spent a good deal of time my freshman year of college playing SC versus my PC using buddies.
It will be interesting to see if they end up releasing any new SC game for the consoles eventually (though I suppose them releasing it at all would be a good start), but I personally don't have much interest in playing an RTS without a keyboard.
I'm sorry, but this is going a little far. All this article says is that MS was trying to develop an mp3 player and that at one point they considered Apple as a partner. Apple would never have signed on for this. In case you haven't noticed, Steve Jobs is just a little bit interested in making the iTunes delivery chain the method for obtaining media content. Do you think that Apple couldn't put out a slick media center wrapped around the Mac Mini or something if they thought it was in their best interest (I mean a real media center with time-shifting TV content, etc., not just streaming a la iTV)? Or that the iPod couldn't support WMA/WMV?
And what would Microsoft have brought to the table anyways? I think it's pretty obvious from the Zune (and most of the other products that MS puts out) that they just don't have the creativity to come up with something as simple and elegant as the iPod, nor do they have the other skills necessary to pull it off. While MS is much, much, much larger (and could have poured tons of cash into it), it's not like Apple was so strapped for funds that they couldn't fund the development.
Now I'm not saying the iPod is perfect or anything, but considering the competition 5 years after launch (and the money that MS has poured into alternatives), it's hard to make a case that Apple could have done much better for themselves (although obviously there are features some of us consumers would like to see added).
Not to mention Al Gore with his "Information Superhighway"... Now thats just crazy talk. The guy must be completely nuts, I mean, there's just no way that it could eve... wha? it is? I am? oh...