WinDoze fans have to got love the latest line of arrogance from Apple’s Steve Jobs. According to Mac Rumors, Jobs recently responded to an e-mail from a Mac Mini owner asking when the company will finally embrace the technology. Jobs response: “Bluray [sic] is looking more and more like one of the high end audio formats that appeared as the successor to the CD–like it will be beaten by Internet downloadable formats.”
The Mac Mini managed to get one more e-mail from the CEO, who stated,
“No, free, instant gratification and convenience (likely in that order) is what made the downloadable formats take off. And the downloadable movie business is rapidly moving to free (Hulu) or rentals (iTunes) so storing purchased movies or TV shows is not an issue. I think you may be wrong–we may see a fast broad move to streamed free and rental content at sufficient quality (at least 720p) to win almost everyone over.”
I don’t know about you but I have a Blue-Ray player and the 1080i picture is demonstrable better than any in-home experience I have viewed to date and 720i just doesn’t cut it. Do you know how long it takes to download a single 30 GBof high resolution movie? Of course Steve knows best for Apple fans what they want. Frankly, Jobs better get with it because his arrogance is getting tough to stomach. First it was the no Flash on the iPad, then the fiasco and lies regarding the iPhone 4 “Deathgrip” antenna design and now this moronic Blue-Ray dictate. Ever since Apple overtook Microsoft in market cap size they have proven themselves to truly be a market bully and are not to be trusted no matter what the Mac fantard or fanboys claim.
The status quo sucks.
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