I don’t want to bash Apple, but I don’t get the hype. They’re just as bad with software as Microsoft is. In fact, I’d say Apple is worse on marketing, because they continue to bash on Microsoft. Just look at this post by Robert McLaws and the accompanying pictures. It says it all. Apple can only get attention by bashing the big boy.
At this conference they revealed 10 awesome new features for their next version of Os X. Paul Thurrott has a nice overview of those ‘features’.
And while Apple bashes Microsoft and Windows Vista, Quicktime 7 is still crashing on my computer, just like it has for the last few months. Half the time when I open a HD trailer I get the all-too familiar “select your debugger” screen. And yesterday I tried installing Quicktime 7 on my PC at work, only to have it fail at the final step in the installer. Some vague error about a function in a DLL. I did have a Quicktime Player icon on my desktop, but it couldn’t be started. In fact, the uninstaller also couldn’t be started. It also crashed. After a reboot the Quicktime quickstarter did start (why do they even install that shit? I don’t want it!), but selecting any option from it resulted in a crash.
I did some Googling and read that my best bet was to install an older version of Quicktime, uninstall that, then reinstall Quicktime 7. That fixed it for a lot of people. But not for me. I couldn’t even install the older version, it complained Quicktime was already installed, but I couldn’t uninstall it. So to regedit I went and spend a good 10 minutes deleting all sorts of Quicktime references. After that I could install Quicktime 6, but it also crashes……figures.
In the end I just downloaded and installed the Quicktime Alternative. It works perfectly.
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