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Originally Posted by CCDMan
You must not be in business....
Linux meets the needs of 1.4 % of the customers and to serve those they either have to:
1)Write new conversion SW which may not be worth it for a lousy 1.4 % of the market. And indeed it probably is not even that since many Linux users
also have Windows machines.
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I don't have a Windows machine. Well, I take that back. I think I have an old machine in the closet that still has Windows on it - if it still fires up.
If they would have written the software in a cross-platform language - like Java - then they would be able to get 100% of the market instead of 80% (which is closer to the real Windows market).
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Originally Posted by CCDMan
2) Allow direct import of standard file formats. I agree that this would be nicer it but does take some added capability within the device, which will add to the device cost. They clearly decided that this was cheaper to do in SW. It will also be more versatile as new formats can be added much more easily.
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All they needed to do was choose a standard format. Making the device handle that format takes just as much resources as handling a proprietary one. No added cost.
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Sure, what is good for stockholders is bad for consumers. This is often true and only sometimes avoidable.
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Not usually. What's bad for the consumers doesn't get sold. Companies that make products that don't sell have mad stockholders.