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why they didn't do this in the beginning I'll never know. Why should they? Then they'd be obligated to support all of these homegrown abominations that people
by stuff4ben 17y ago
why they didn't do this in the beginning I'll never know.
Why should they? Then they'd be obligated to support all of these homegrown abominations that people come up with. Apple made the correct choice when not supporting the DIY crowd. Not that there's anything wrong with doing it, and heck I might even do it just so I can get my MBP back from my wife.
- josefresco 17y agoApple made the correct choice when not supporting the DIY crowd Did they? They certainly lost (didn't gain) the bulk of the PC market which you could argue is a good thing, but also relegates Macs to a much smaller (albeit more profitable per machine) niche market.
- sp332 17y agoNot everything is about money!
- derefr 17y agoThey didn't lose the majority of the PC market; they never had it to begin with. To gain the PC market, you need to make/license/QA drivers—lots and lots (and lots) of high-quality drivers. Microsoft has spent the last 20-odd years doing this, and they still can't guarantee a high enough quality standard that my webcam won't lock up Explorer when I accidentally select it with Preview enabled.
- buugs 17y agoUnless your webcam is made by microsoft specifically for your os (vista/xp/etc) then it is not microsoft who has to supply the correct drivers to integrate well with explorer.
- petewarden 17y agoThat's exactly the point. The end-user doesn't care who's responsibility that hang is, they bought the hardware and software together and when it hangs, it's Microsoft's fault. Even though we know it's actually J Random driver programmer who wrote the bogus code. Apple's stranglehold on the hardware and software irks my hacker sensibilities, but it's the key to a much better user experience.