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Story: Over 10,000 sign BBC iPlayer petition
Precisely!
And what *is* the market for something like the iPlayer?
Certainly *not* the plain old desktop Windows(TM) PC. If you are at home, where are you going to watch TV? On your Windows(TM) PC, or on your TV?
No, by far the bigger market for something like the iPlayer is:
Portable Media Players (Apple 70-80%, others 20-30%, Microsoft 0%)
Mobile phones (Everyone else 94%, Microsoft 6%)
Consumer electronics devices (eg Tivo-like - and here *Linux* has more market share than Microsoft).
The 'market share' arguments sound a little hollow unless you subscribe to the 'whole world is the PC' religion that Microsoft have been trying to inflict on everyone and appear to have succeeded with certain individuals within the BBC.
No, it simply doesn't add up, and someone in the BBC needs to figure out a much more convincing story than they have so far because more and more of the world has *smelt a rat*...
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Story: Over 10,000 sign BBC iPlayer petition
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Re: Channel 4 also guilty Andrew Meredith -
Petition here - please sign Sothis
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Channel 4 aslo guilty Hawaii-5-o
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It would be criminal 1000119119 -
Precisely! Sothis -
Portable media players 1000119119
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The issue is portability, not... Andrew Meredith -
Market share 1000119119
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Geeks are not worth it Andrew Meredith
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Standards are set by sales fig... 1000119119
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Free == Invisible ? Andrew Meredith
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What dream world do people liv... 1000119119
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Bad childhood experience much? Andrew Meredith
