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To: ggamer who wrote (2736)	5/9/2010 10:09:27 PM
From: dfloydr	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) of 2955

Apple has apparently just trade marked or copyrighted or patented the term "iTunes Live". When you take a good look at the image quality of their new iPad or any of their latest iteration of laptops and desktop screens you can well envision signing up to watch a concert in London or Sydney live, a tennis match in NYC or a golf game in Augusta on any of the Apple devices. Pipe the program out onto a big screen if you like. Or maybe Apple will now buy the rights to NFL football? My wife just got her iPad in Saturday's mail and she has been lost to it since. The content that is already available is oh so slick and includes just about every iPhone ap too. This is a lady who was coordinator between the three IBM labs that developed the original PC. For some years we had the obligatory PC's around. Now we have only Apple gear and one lone PC just to run TurboTax which is the tax program we like best but which has not yet made the transition to MAc OS and to access the GE Supra lockbox system I use in my real estate business. Some one posted that Apple's market share is just 4%. I think that that is quite an old statistic. The beauty of Apple is their software control. First they insist that every bit of everything to do with a given program is all stored together in one place. Second they go to great lengths to design an intuitive interface. In the PC world programmers can stash stuff all over the place and inevitably one program stumbles over some trash left by another. I once went to get rid of a "Creative" package. I ran the uninstall function and still things would not work. I called the company and got all the extensions used by all their files and set about searching my PC for the remains of the Creative program. I found 2,341 Creative files scattered in almost every corner of my PC including a pile of junk they had inserted into the registry which their uninstall program never bothered to delete. I removed them one by one and restored my registry and bingo ... my PC was back to working. Allowing programmers to mess with your registry is akin to allowing the next person you meet on the street to do brain surgery inside your head with kitchen utensils. I think people have now lost interest in playing doctor to cranky computer gear. They want to do something interesting or productive or entertaining. I see that the new MSFT Windows 7 on my PC is behaving a lot better than previous MSFT products, but it still does not have that intuitive quality that Apple builds in to everything they do. Buy Apple stock? Wish I were smart enough to know when to do so. Buy Apple gear ... we don't even consider alternatives any more. With so much of our lives having evolved to being computer dependent, we no longer want to be forever searching for a solution in some fat manual or hanging on a phone line for tech help.

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