“The BBC will launch a download version of its iPlayer online video service for Apple Mac users by the end of 2008,” BBC News reports.
“The corporation’s director general Mark Thompson made the commitment in a blog posting on the BBC’s website. ‘I hope this good news is evidence of the hard work that the BBC is committing to supporting other platforms,’ he wrote,” The Beeb reports.
“The BBC had faced criticism for launching the download iPlayer service for Windows users only,” The Beeb reports.
“The BBC’s iPlayer [currently] comes in two versions – a program which allows users to download programmes to their Windows PC and a streaming version on the web available to all users,” The Beeb reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dirty Pierre le Punk” for the heads up.]
Market share is but one measure that developers should consider. Average income, disposable income, level of education, willingness to pay for software and services, etc. — all of these important measures tilt strongly in Mac users’ favor. As we often ask developers, do you want a bunch of people for whom low prices (or free) is the top priority (and among whom piracy is rampant), or do you want an educated, informed group of people who have proven that they are willing and able to pay for your software?
Mac-only and cross-platform developers are smart. Windows-only developers are not.
Someday we’ll all laugh about how the vast majority of the world had at one time ended up on the worst possible platform.
“Ignorance is bliss” ought to be Microsoft’s company motto.
@MacFhearghaile
England? BBC? Who gives a s–t
I do you !!! your xenophobic comments are bang out of order, you feck’n plonker.
Wiki page for the BBC by no means the whole story, but interesting anyway.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/
Goto the url above and guess what it works i have imac 24 10.5 no prob
@ Reality Check
While I appreciate your reminder on real facts and not dreams of a better mac world, I am completely against any DRM structure. Has any DRM really been truly successful? Obviously the answer is no. These are just silly little tactics made to prevent a portion of the population from copying their content illegally. this is a horrible option to put out content. I believe firmly that if your content is good for audio or video, that people will pay for good quality content. Of course there is always people out there that will rip you off but not everyone is a thief. Apple does not license DRM because it compromises the security that all Studios hold Apple responsible for. Actually, the DRM scheme costs Apple money to maintain. If the studios didn’t care, Apple wouldn’t care either. I have music posted on iTunes and every $0.99 song I post, I get over $0.88 back. SO for the studios to want to publish their own solution is less of an issue of profit and more of an issue of fear that Apple could control media through the internet. No one company should have that much power as has happened in the past and present.