off topic: accessibility with mac stuff?

[Nick G]

Anyway, IPods are worthless.  The glammer and stuff is all marketing.  Go
find a Reo Carma or Carbon, players made of all metal construction.
Thanks,
Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: off topic: accessibility with mac stuff?


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> Actually since you mention Windows Media, Yes, I blaim Microsoft; not
> windows itself but it is the developer that I lay blaim with.  Thank God
> there are alternative choices to play audio files like winamp or foobar
> 2000 but for the apple and well, windows too for that matter, Itunes is
> the only software you can use to support all features of an Ipod.  So if
> one has an Ipod, he/she *MUST* have access to Itunes to use it fully.
> Also, the itunes music store cannot be accessed with any other players
> either and it so happens that the music store is about the least
> accessible part of Itunes under windows.  If itunes never gets rewritten
> in Coco and as long as the windows version is like it is pressently, I
> will never again buy music from Apple's store, nor will ever buy an
> Ipod.  The inaccessibility makes it worthless to me.
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 09:30:12AM -0700, BlindTech wrote:
> > but windows media player isn't all that acccessable either. so do we
blame
> > windows? is there not quick time, or any other mp3 player. do we blame
> > apple for all this miner stuff and not look at windows in the
samemanner?
> > BlindTech
>
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