18 Mar
2007
18 Mar
'07
3:53 p.m.
On Sun Mar 18, 2007 at 12:54:45PM +0100, Marc-Olivier Barre wrote:
On 3/17/07, Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com>
wrote:
Apple ? The ones that put video capabilities on the audio output of
their iPod, thus creating the worst of bad quality audio output ever ?
Since when do they care about audio quality ?
I am very well aware of the unusefulness of my statement ;-) I just
had to react to this. Something is fatal to Apple only when it comes
to money, not hardware quality. This is true for 90% of technological
goods out there. Quality is Just a Marketing Argument (TM)
i do find some of the smaller companies do differentiate on quality, since they can't
(afford) to differentiate on heavy marketing/branding/advertising.
f'example ive never had anything from LiteON suck in any way. and nothing has gone
wrong with my MSI notebook in 16 months.
and of course they also differentiate on features. not that iRiver/iAudio's FM tuner,
longer batter life, FLAC and ogg support, line in, ability to record from line in or FM,
video codecs people actually use like Xvid, standard filesystem schema, and lower price
all combined are enough to nullify the power of Apple's
marketing/aura/distortion-field in the mind of the average consumer-slave...
Background noise I would say... and some huge issues with interrupt
handling (but that's any cards on any laptops...) which makes is very
hard not to have xruns.
That raises an interesting point - I wonder if Dell would consider
"noisy audio" a fatal hardware issue to the same extent that Apple
would. __________________
Marc-Olivier Barre,
Markinoko.