I don't use iTunes for listening, just for sync'ing ipod/ipad devices, but I wonder how this effects
iTunes for Windows. In older iterations, the playback engine WAS Quicktime, which horribly mangled
non-Apple-native formats (like WAV).
I don't want to get into a quasi-religious discussion about Mac vs. Windows, but in the business
world, Windows always ruled. As we move away from personal computers of any type, and going back to
when Apple started using standard Intel parts in their machines and allowed for dual-boot
environments, the Windows/IBM-style PC grip was loosened somewhat, but not much. In my own, one
man's opinion case, I started out in regular use of computers with a Mac Plus, and stayed in the Mac
world until Apple went terribly astray before Jobs came back, and Microsoft came out with Windows
95. By the time Windows 2000 came out, PC's were MUCH cheaper and feature-rich than Macs, and the NT
guts of Win2K was very stable. XP followed in that lineage. Meanwhile, when Apple came out with OSX,
I really didn't like the GUI and particularly didn't like that it was not backward-compatible to the
software and formats I had invested quite a bit of money in previously. So I gave up on Apple.
Microsoft meanwhile made their GUI more Apple-like, but still didn't have the childish "gumdrop"
buttons and annoying stuff at the bottom of the screen that gets larger if you accidently mouse over
it. Plus the right-click is still more robust in Windows. In my businesses, the now-sold publishing
business and the audio studio, I standardized on Windows. I'll stick with that because it does the
job for me, although Win10 might break the camel's back! To switch to Apple now would be costly,
involve a needless learning curve and not really gain me much.
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lou Judson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] For WINDOWS Users - Apple and Govt say to remove Quicktime from your PC
Interesting synchronicity:
Today I was working in a local studio, where we use a Mac for the audio but must type the invoice on
a Windows PC. When I brought up the PC, there was a notice of upgrade for Quicktime Player 7 for
Windows! I ignored it as I don’t use the PC much, but it is interesting to see this on the same day.
I would like to know more, even though I generally don’t use PCs at all; they seem so backwards from
what I learned on Mac. And on Mac, QT7Pro is a most useful program, simplke and feature-rich. The
only video program I use, actually, soince I just do audio.
Here is the text of the short article:
"Apple has confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that it's going to stop working on its QuickTime
media player for Windows after a security company found flaws in the program.
Last week the US government advised Windows PC users to uninstall QuickTime because cybersecurity
firm Trend Micro said it had found two bugs in the program.
The bugs found by Trend Micro could, in theory, allow hackers to take control of a PC by directing
QuickTime users to malicious web pages.
Apple hasn't said that it's going to fix the flaws — instead it told The Wall Street Journal that
it's just not going to update the software anymore, effectively dropping it from its software
line-up.
You can find out how to uninstall QuickTime for Windows here.”
<http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-is-ending-support-for-quicktime-for-windows-after-us-government-recommended-people-uninstall-it-2016-4?r=UK&IR=T>
I ask, WHAT security company, and what arm of the US Gov’t, and what vested interest do they have,
etc.
<L>
Lou Judson
I'm just a simple sound engineer, nothing more, nothing less.
-- paraphrase of the Dalai Lama.
On Apr 19, 2016, at 5:35 PM, Steve Ramm <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I did not see this on the National News and it is not a spoof. And I know
> folks here watch videos on their PC.
>
> So sharing with all Windows users (Apple folks can ignore):
>
> _Apple is ending support for QuickTime for Windows after US government
> recommended people uninstall it - Business Insider_
> (http://www.businessinsider.com/
> apple-is-ending-support-for-quicktime-for-windows-after-us-government-recommended-people-uninstall-it-2016-4?r=UK&IR=T)
>
> Steve Ramm
|