For quite a while I’ve been patiently waiting for Apple to support Blu-ray drives or allow Blu-ray playback in their Mac line. I’ve heard how licensing Blu-ray is a “bag of hurt” but assumed all those problems would be worked out in time. Today, I see someone emailed Steve Jobs about this very topic, and Jobs shot back this short, simple, taunt of a response.
From 9 to 5 Mac.com
I cannot fully illustrate how fucking infuriated this makes me. Jobs’s alternative to Blu-ray is YouTube?! For one thing, Flash on YouTube performs like shit on a Mac. For another thing, YouTube might say it is 1080p, but it is compressed so much that the video quality is a laughably poor substitute for 1080p from a Blu-ray disc. In short, saying YouTube is similar to Blu-ray is like like saying a sheet of paper is a replacement for an iPad.
That dog don’t hunt.
Over the last few years, I’ve bought a Power Mac, a Mac Pro, a PowerBook, a MacBook Pro, a couple iPhones, and numerous iPods. I’ve talked family members into getting iMacs and Macbooks. I’ve spent a lot of money on this company. But I have gotten tired of waiting for them to upgrade their optical drives — or even to allow Blu-ray playback from some third-party vendor’s external drive. Windows laptops and desktops have had this capability for a couple years now, but it seems Apple can’t handle it, or, more likely, doesn’t give a shit. This has become readily apparent now, direct from the head of the company, in the form of a stupid, thoughtless, tossed-off comment. Well…two can play at that game: Fuck you, Steve Jobs — my next computer will be running Windows.
‘I have to admit a twinge of sadness as I see Steve Jobs following his arch rival – and probably real life aspiration and buddy – Bill Gates, into retirement. Yes, it is the end of an era. Both of these geniuses changed our world. Love ’em or hate ’em, you have to admit they made profound changes on the world now and into the future.