Yes, my cable bill is rising again, but I should be glad… Â At least that’s Time Warner’s belief, why?
Well, for example:
New! ABC TV Show Episodes for 99 Cents
Rent your favorite episodes of hit ABC shows like Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, and Lost for just 99 cents! Road Runner Video Store lets you download shows to own or rent – and watch in minutes.
But of course, like many of their products, I can’t use it. Â Why? Â It’s Windows-centric. Â I have to download and install a Roadrunner Media Player, before I can even consider using their service…
Why? Â For the same reason that I can’t use the Antivirus software that Time Warner advertises. Â Because they simply don’t care. Â Time Warner just bundles Computer Associates (McAfee) antivirus package, so instead they could of decided on bundling the McAfee software (or AVAST, etc).
Time Warner doesn’t care about actually providing a service to anyone other than their majority users, nor about giving good service. Â They complain about iTunes being an monopoly / titan in the Video arena, yet here we go with yet another video store that is ignoring an underserved segment.
Why? Â Because they have decided to use some off the shelf Microsoft supplied toolkit that will never properly support the Macintosh. Â I thank our Net Overlords when Netflix demanded that Silverlight support the Macintosh when they devised their streaming solution… Â (Of course, Microsoft has officially killed Silverlight, and now Netflix has to re-engineering, but that has nothing about supporting the Macintosh…)