Acquisition Mac 1

What I found kind of funny is the maker of Acquisition, the beautifully made Gnutella client for the Mac, basically had to start a manhunt for people who where using his program to download its own pitrated registration key so they wouldn't have to pay $15 to avoid the little nag. While I wouldn't want to encourage this, it is rather telling how quick people are to bite...

im using an ethernet internet connection at a university and whenever i try and auto update in mac os X it tells me im not connected 2 the inernet when i am. ...

time PC user who finally converted to a Mac. There are lots of great things about my new 17" iMac, but ease of software acquisition is not one of them. ...

I agree with you on this one! It would be a good move on Apple's part.:D

The Register has speculated that the reasons for the acquisition would be to get products to serve as the basis of iLife for Windows. ...

Considering that software (that's ALL software, not just OSX) accounts for about 7% of Apple's revenue, I think that saying their hardware sales will take a hit but that is a good thing is way optimistic. A four fold increase in software sales wouldn't come close to matching a halving of hardware sales. Don't you think that Steve learned something with NeXT? Apple can...

NEITHER of them has anything to do with the mac platform, other then that they run on it. Your inclusion of these programs implies that Windows doesn't have any bad 3rd party apps? ...

I find it hilarious how whenever I look at this board, most Mac users are talking about how slow file transfers are and how things aren't smooth and this and that. ...

...chose RealPC if it was to run Windows apps... The current version is only for Mac OS 9 but the up and coming will support OS X as well and also will give you the ability to even utilize your Mac's graphics in order to let you run Windows 3d graphic apps and games!!! But I would personally buy such a product... Also, about using Kazaa here are some alternatives for Mac which...

I think he based his entire article after downloading just 1 album. We'll I also downloaded the album last night on two different macs and burned them. ...