I downloaded the new trailer for City of Heroes issue 11 in Quicktime. I mean, hey, eat lunch, see the new stuff, y'know?
Well, I can't watch it because my Quicktime player is too old. Get the new one, right and go from there, right?

Wrong.

The new Quicktime player which I need to watch the trailer with is for OS X 10.3.9 and up. I have OS X 10.2.8. Bastards! OS X 10.2 came out in 2002, 10.3 came out in 2003. A stupid 1-year difference! I can't think of a real reason that it won't work except its a "reason" to pay the bloody Apple-tax, just like getting an updated version of Safari :(

Microsoft tries this stuff and they get the grief they deserve. Apple does this and nobody says a bloody word. That's one reason I'll never leave Windows; Apple can get away with too much with OSX, but they won't dare do that on Windows. I'll redownload this at home on my happy, just-as-stable-as-my-OSX-Mac Windows XP machine once I figure out if I would rather watch it in Windows Media Player or Quicktime format. Maybe I'll be a really naughty boy by getting the WMP version and seeing how many different video players I can watch it on or transfer it to my Sansa and watch it there.

At least I'm ahead of my boss. He can't get Firefox to work on his OS X 10.4.x Intel Mac Mini, which I enjoy using on my G4 at work as well as my G3 and XP machines at home.