WHY? on earth did sony make these things so mac resistant?

[Malone]

I can not think of a good reason for making the new MD players (bar 1) not Mac compatible. This format is almost a dinosaur ( i love it) and so you would think that they would want anyone and everyone using it when and wherever they wanted to. Is it maybe that Mac is Sony resistant?

[raintheory]

Mac = iPod

iPod being a huge competitor for the portable player market...

Edited July 31, 2006 by raintheory

[NIGHTS]

Sony = VAIO (PC platform)

obviously Sony would want their products to interface with their own products a little more seemlessly than anyone elses, including Apple.

Or perhaps it comes down to a slight arrogance from Sony's powers that be, considering all the stuff the Sony has created in the past I HIGHLY doubt it'd be very difficult for the engineers to create seemless compatability with Mac and PC.

[danielbb90]

There has to be a link between sony and microsoft...

Bother there softwares buggy! (I admit, there both getting better) lol

[bjsilva]

I don't think it has anything to do with the iPod - NetMDs were around before the iPod. Nor anything to do with competitive tactics - the percentage of people who were previously planning on buying a Mac but then switched and bought a Sony PC because they wouldn't be able to use their MD would amount to less than those customers who might consider buying an MD if it worked seamlessly with their Mac.

It could be that Sony had underestimated how many of their customers are Mac users, hence the newer MDs becoming more Mac compatible.

It could also be the typical view of Windows developers - there are more Windows than Macs and therefore more money to be made developing for Windows. This is obviously true, although there are plenty of companies who know there is much money to be made in the Mac market as well.

[1kyle]

Just purchase a version of Parallels for your mac --then you can run windows to your hearts content --no probs and you don't need to re-boot either.

Running Windows XP (home or Pro) or even W2K as a VM on a Mac these days under parallels runs at around 95% native speed. --No probs with running SS on a Windows VM on a mac.

http://www.parallels.com

Cheers

-K

[mmp64]

I can not think of a good reason for making the new MD players (bar 1) not Mac compatible. This format is almost a dinosaur ( i love it) and so you would think that they would want anyone and everyone using it when and wherever they wanted to. Is it maybe that Mac is Sony resistant?

In Sony's view (a maker of Windows PCs) - Windows = 97% market share, Mac = 3% market share. Actually, one of the reasons I moved away from Mac many years ago was because I was so into MD - this was before iPod reall took off.

[danielbb90]

Arn't there more linux users than mac users now, or something like that?

[1kyle]

Arn't there more linux users than mac users now, or something like that?

Probably are -- but the easiest way around this problem is just to run a Windows Virtual Machine under Parallels either with Linux as the Host OS on a PC or OS X on a Mac as the host OS.

This is EXACTLY what Virtual Machines are good at -- just run the software on the OS it was designed for(Windows) and forget the whole problem of Mac incompatability.

When you've finished just shut down the Windows VM.

Don't forget that even while the Windows VM is running you have total access to your Host OS (Linux / Mac) and you can also cut and paste between the OS'es.

I'm actually typing this in on a Windows XP PRO virtual machine running as a guest OS on a MAC just to show that it's 100% windows capable. I'm using IE6 (Prefer Mozilla / Firefox anyway you care to name it) just to show it works.

I'm also playing a MD via the USB out -- the Windows VM is running SS as well -- no probs at all here either --and I get to still keep the MAC which I LOVE for any sort of photo processing --pro photography is much better done on a MAC than a Windows machine.

Cheers

-K

Edited August 6, 2006 by 1kyle