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Freely adapted from the iReview page about
Real Networks. I suggest you read it before reading this parody.
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Apple, like many other software vendors, offers you free versions of
its most popular products in hope that you will later upgrade to the
fancier versions that cost money. Basic products, including QuickTime for streaming
video, are downloadable for free at the company's Web site. But be
forewarned that it will be much easier to find the $30 "Pro" version
than it will be to unearth the deeply buried freebies.
Because Apple's raison d'être is to sell these and other
products, it's in the company's best interest to make you believe that
you can't live without them. The confusingly named Mac.com is part of
its attempt to do so. Among other things, the network provides a guide
to various categories of content around the Web - including music,
news, sports, movies, television, and radio - that supports, of course,
Apple's agenda of keeping you on "safe" sites.
The guide is modestly useful, if self-serving, although we wonder
who made the imbecilic decision to include three Mac Publishing sites
in its innocuously-named Computers section while ignoring the bulk of
the Mac-centric web. Mac users should be aware that those who go
exploring there are only a couple of clicks away from some of the most
mundane Mac-centric sites available. Incredibly, iReview's editors go
beyond merely listing the computer sites, and actually brag about how
helpful their choices are - with the exception of Real Networks, which
makes a product that competes with QuickTime, earns a two star rating,
and is the first computer review on the page.
The good news is that all the Apple.com and Mac.com pages are so
dominated by links to The Apple Store and iTools (some of which are
only available to Mac OS 9 users) that perhaps no one will discover its
seamier side. Ultimately, the best (we won't say only) reason to come
here is to download Apple's software, which you'll need to view and
listen to multimedia files at other sites around the Web.
Dan Knight has been using Macs since 1986,
sold Macs for several years, supported them for many more years, and
has been publishing Low End Mac since April 1997. If you find Dan's articles helpful, please consider making a donation to his tip jar.
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