Apple will fall behind again unless there is a PtoP client like Kazaa for the Mac!

mr. fantasticmr. fantastic
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
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.



Discuss



[ 05-24-2002: Message edited by: Mr. Fantastic ]</p>

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 12
    gambitgambit Posts: 475member
    Um, what's there really to discuss? You're saying Apple's entire future is dependant on the latest trend that has hit high schoolers and you want us to discuss the validity of that? I feel dirty knowing that I responded to your post in the first place.
  • Reply 2 of 12
    amorphamorph Posts: 7,112member
    I would guess that the reason KaZaA has been slow to come over is that a lot of the companies that use it depend on installing spyware for their revenue streams, and since the spyware is almost always a Windows executable, it won't run on a Mac.



    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>
  • Reply 3 of 12
    colorclassicg4colorclassicg4 Posts: 224member
    So "Mr. Fantastic" will be forced to buy a PC because he cannot steal things as efficiently with a Mac.



    Boo hoo.



  • Reply 4 of 12
    hmurchisonhmurchison Posts: 12,425member
    [quote]Originally posted by Mr. Fantastic:

    <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.



    Discuss



    [ 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.
  • Reply 5 of 12
    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
    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).
  • Reply 6 of 12
    wolfeye155wolfeye155 Posts: 425member
    I went to the Audio Galaxy website and tried to download the AG Satellite program but they don't have it for Macintosh at all. Can you explain this?
  • Reply 7 of 12
    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
    It's not at the AG site, but there are satellites out there.



    VersionTracker might have one, I think.
  • Reply 8 of 12
    mr. fantasticmr. fantastic Posts: 123member
    [quote]Originally posted by groverat:

    <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.
  • Reply 9 of 12
    thegeldingthegelding Posts: 3,230member
    iChat
  • Reply 10 of 12
    hmurchisonhmurchison Posts: 12,425member
    [quote]Originally posted by Mr. Fantastic:

    <strong>



    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?
  • Reply 11 of 12
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    Eh, what thegelding said. iChat has peer-to-peer sharing that's pretty clear and simple. It likely has a better transfer rate than these other services too since it's Apple's and AOL's servers.



    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>
  • Reply 12 of 12
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    KaZaA runs just fine in VPC/Win2K for me.



    Software, also.
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