OSX and Linux Users Unite
Just recently it has seemed to me that the BBC has got it in for us Mac users - and that probably includes the Linux brigade as well. I do know that not that long ago I was able to watch, from the comfort of sitting in front of my Macbook Pro, video clips on the BBC News website. And I know that sometime in the last few months every attempt I have made to do just that has resulted in an empty screen. No message. No error. Just…. nothing. Yet I assume someone out there is getting it loud and clear and after reading a little snippet of news tonight, my guess is that it’s the Windows Legions.
The BBC has unveiled plans to launch an on-demand TV service delivered over the web and to receive this you need their ‘iPlayer’ software which…. wait for it…. only runs on Windows based machines. That’s two fingers from the BBC to Mac users the world over. On the basis that the BBC is a corporation funded from license fees paid by everyone who wants to receieve radio or television in the UK and that their charter disallows commercial interests or political bias and that they claim to provide a service available to ‘everyone’, this decision is not to be taken sitting down.