Posted by Derek Janssen on 09/12/06 00:37

Invid Fan wrote:
>
>>Personally, though, Steve's not the type to send the entire company down
>>one stream of the river until industry conventional wisdom has the war
>>almost over--
>>And since it's still a losing stalemate, he's still waiting in the
>>trenches with the rest of us.
>
> Depends. Jobs put DVD-ROM's in computers too early, switching to CD-R
> when that proved more popular. A success on the early conversion front
> was going to USB before it was more then a rarely used option anywhere
> else. However, I agree that after getting burned on the dvd drives
> before he'll wait this time...

Plus, the issue of DVD-R for their Superdrives, before Microsoft went
for +R--But that's excusable, as that war was still up in the air.
(The current Intel Macs now burn both.)

DVD recording was a necessity, but HD isn't yet, seeing as HD monitors
are only a small niche of their sales, and run mostly QuickTime HD
downloads--
This war Steve can afford to wait out as objector.

Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net

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