Apple will fall behind again unless there is a PtoP client like Kazaa for the Mac!
When Napster came out two years ago, the industry exploded with software and portable MP3 players. Napster quite literally became a reason in it self to buy a computer if you didn't already have one. Good thing was, we Mac user's were lucky enough to also have a Mac Napster client.
Enter 2002...
Kazaa and Morpheus are all the rage. You can get ANYTHING from them. A PC using friend of mine has hooked me up with no less than 12 DVD quality divx encoded movies that are less than 700 MBs each. So far, there is no such client for the Mac with the exception of the pitiful Limewire. Peer to Peer file sharing IS the next big thing in computing. It has become the reason to get a PC all over again. When the young kids (whose friends at school are downloading the latest movies off Kazaa )find out that there is no Kazaa client for the Mac they will simply buy a PC - much like when Apple waited almost two years before jumping on the CDRW banwagon.
Apple may be innovative but the people drive the market when it comes to what is popular - cool case designs aside.
Unless Apple creates a nice P to P application (why not!?) or a GOOD Kazaa client comes to the Mac I'll have to purchase a PC. And no, I haven't gotten it to work in VPC using both Win98 and Win2k. Apparently they will not install correctly in the emulated environment.
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[ 05-24-2002: Message edited by: Mr. Fantastic ]</p>
Enter 2002...
Kazaa and Morpheus are all the rage. You can get ANYTHING from them. A PC using friend of mine has hooked me up with no less than 12 DVD quality divx encoded movies that are less than 700 MBs each. So far, there is no such client for the Mac with the exception of the pitiful Limewire. Peer to Peer file sharing IS the next big thing in computing. It has become the reason to get a PC all over again. When the young kids (whose friends at school are downloading the latest movies off Kazaa )find out that there is no Kazaa client for the Mac they will simply buy a PC - much like when Apple waited almost two years before jumping on the CDRW banwagon.
Apple may be innovative but the people drive the market when it comes to what is popular - cool case designs aside.
Unless Apple creates a nice P to P application (why not!?) or a GOOD Kazaa client comes to the Mac I'll have to purchase a PC. And no, I haven't gotten it to work in VPC using both Win98 and Win2k. Apparently they will not install correctly in the emulated environment.
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[ 05-24-2002: Message edited by: Mr. Fantastic ]</p>
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Frankly, I'll gladly forsake KaZaA's file-sharing capabilities to avoid the gigantic security/stability hole that it opens up. But then, I'm not in high school.
If it did come over, I'd hope that Ad-Aware would come over with it. But I don't consider that likely anytime soon. Unless all the spyware companies adopt Java. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
[ 05-24-2002: Message edited by: Amorph ]</p>
Boo hoo.
<strong>When Napster came out two years ago, the industry exploded with software and portable MP3 players. Napster quite literally became a reason in it self to buy a computer if you didn't already have one. Good thing was, we Mac user's were lucky enough to also have a Mac Napster client.
Enter 2002...
Kazaa and Morpheus are all the rage. You can get ANYTHING from them. A PC using friend of mine has hooked me up with no less than 12 DVD quality divx encoded movies that are less than 700 MBs each. So far, there is no such client for the Mac with the exception of the pitiful Limewire. Peer to Peer file sharing IS the next big thing in computing. It has become the reason to get a PC all over again. When the young kids (whose friends at school are downloading the latest movies off Kazaa )find out that there is no Kazaa client for the Mac they will simply buy a PC - much like when Apple waited almost two years before jumping on the CDRW banwagon.
Apple may be innovative but the people drive the market when it comes to what is popular - cool case designs aside.
Unless Apple creates a nice P to P application (why not!?) or a GOOD Kazaa client comes to the Mac I'll have to purchase a PC. And no, I haven't gotten it to work in VPC using both Win98 and Win2k. Apparently they will not install correctly in the emulated environment.
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[ 05-24-2002: Message edited by: Mr. Fantastic ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
Again..this is getting old. If you want to buy a PC...go buy one and give us some peace from this drivel. That is the most inane reason to buy a PC....have fun tracking down virus' Worms and annoying Gator adds.
AudioGalaxy is the best mainstream stealing app and it's running just fine on the Mac (from what I hear).
VersionTracker might have one, I think.
<strong>Morpheus is dead and Kazaa is dying. All the rage... 6 months ago. I guess he was going to post this in December of '01 and forgot to until today.
AudioGalaxy is the best mainstream stealing app and it's running just fine on the Mac (from what I hear).</strong><hr></blockquote>
Ah...no. AudioGalaxy will gladly block any copy written material if you ask them to. All the popular music is no longer available there. (Fine by me, as I listen to everything underground.)
And concerning buying a PC because I can't steal as efficiently as I can on a Mac!? Dam strait! It pisses me off that my PC loving friends can do things on their computers that I can't. Especially something as simple as file swapping. I'll trade drop shadows and genie effects for a good peer to peer application any day.
But - for the record, I will ALWAYS be a Mac user. I've made my living for the past four years working on Macs and I detest Windows with every fiber of my flesh.
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Ah...no. AudioGalaxy will gladly block any copy written material if you ask them to. All the popular music is no longer available there. (Fine by me, as I listen to everything underground.)
And concerning buying a PC because I can't steal as efficiently as I can on a Mac!? Dam strait! It pisses me off that my PC loving friends can do things on their computers that I can't. Especially something as simple as file swapping. I'll trade drop shadows and genie effects for a good peer to peer application any day.
But - for the record, I will ALWAYS be a Mac user. I've made my living for the past four years working on Macs and I detest Windows with every fiber of my flesh.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Ahhhh you are now forgiven! You have paid homage to the Religion that is Macintosh LOL. Kazaa is starting to suck. Sometimes I use iMesh on my madre's PC. Are Gnutella clients really that poor?
I should also point out Rendezvous's inherent ability to do peer-to-peer services with your local pirates.
[ 05-24-2002: Message edited by: BuonRotto ]</p>
Software, also.