![]() Obviously, Apple has a way to go, but if you think Steve Jobs doesn’t have a grand master plan, you’re wrong. So, Apple was not “slow” with the new Front Row, more like “waiting for the right time.” The Front Row interface is instantly familiar to iPod users for a reason. Like the GUI, the mouse, FireWire, Wi-Fi, ad infinitum: Apple leads. Macintosh TV, introduced by Apple in 1993. Long before Microsoft began pushing Media Center computers, before most Wintel PCs even had sound cards, Apple made a Mac with a built-in TV tuner. The New iMac G5 – Built-in iSight camera and remote control with Front Row media experience. ![]() The ultimate music + video experience on the go. Just a thought,” Paul Thurrott writes for WinInfo. Which, frankly, is what you want with digital media content. Most tellingly, perhaps: Why is Apple’s interface so text-based? It looks sad next to Microsoft’s highly-visual approach. In short, they have a long way to go before they can ever catch up with Media Center. Furthermore, Apple is only now dealing with issues Microsoft first solved four years ago–IR interfaces, for starters–and has yet to figure out all the issues involved with TV tuner cards, TV recording, and so forth. But this lengthy gestation–Media Center has been out for over three years now–suggests that Apple isn’t all-powerful. ‘I was surprised that it took them as long as this to do a feature like Media Center,’ he said. Joe Belfiore, the general manager of Microsoft’s eHome division, is in New York this week for Digital Life for the soft-launch of XP MCE 2005 UR2, and he’s surprised about a completely different issue. “I’m surprised that there was less outrage over Apple’s Front Row software, which is a complete Media Center rip-off (albeit one that offers only a subset of Media Center features).
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