Waccoon wrote:
Motorollin: What's wrong with QuickTime?
- QuickTime installs several background tasks and helpers. See my comments about helpers above.
Fair comment. However this doesn't impact performance on my Mac at all.
Waccoon wrote:
- The last time I downloaded QuickTime, Apple was bundling it with iTunes. Why the hell do I need iTunes forced on me when I don't have an iPod, or even a portable music player? Funny how people complained about Mandatory Web Browsers in Windows years ago, but nobody complains when Apple bundles largely unrelated products.
The Apple web site offers Quicktime+iTunes or Quicktime on its own.
Waccoon wrote:
- QuickTime is the only application I know of that will BSOD my Windows machine. It does a lot of really nasty low-level things to the machine's graphics system. Apple is quick to blame Microsoft for this, especially given the large problems Apple has had getting QuickTime running on Vista.
Can't comment on this as it has never happened to me in Windows, and QuickTime causes no problems on my Mac.
Waccoon wrote:
- On Windows, QuickTime is not even the slightest bit compliant with Windows GUI programming guidelines. Simple things like copy/paste, hotkeys, and closing windows don't work properly.
Fair point. But it's nicely integrated with MacOS :-)
Waccoon wrote:
- It's slow as dirt. Tracking response is faster than Windows Media Player, and it can play videos at different speeds, but that's it.
Yes this is annoying.
Waccoon wrote:
- QuickTime overtakes your machine. It replaces everything in your web browsers, too, so just clicking on an MP3 file will bring up the QuickTime interface. Turning everything to defaults in the system takes a long time, and the QuickTime control panel doesn't affect web browser integration at all, forcing you to do it through your web browser's extension manager. What a pain!
Again, this is not a problem on a Mac. Can't comment on Windows though.
Waccoon wrote:
- Apple makes you pay for the full QuickTime app to enable file saving, even if the media is not protected. Now that's stupid.
No it's not. Quicktime Pro has loads of extra features and is a great product. Most applications which allow you to convert between different file formats are shareware.
Waccoon wrote:
- Many, many old QuickTime codecs don't work on newer versions of QuickTime. The solution? Buy the full version of QuickTime and recode your old .MOV files, of course! Windows Media Player will still play anything if the proper codec is installed. Oh yeah, the QuickTime updater won't recognize "obsolete" codecs, and any codecs that are recognized will usually require extra plugins to be installed, and not just the codec itself. More "bundling", in other words.
I have never had a QuickTime movie which does not play on my Mac, and I have some very old ones.
I don't want to come across as a crackpot Applehead. I have agreed with some of your points. But they are minor annoyances. On the whole I think QuickTime is a great product, and one which I happily paid for.
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moto
