Comments on: why we launched boxee for Mac before Windows

By: tom sella

tom sella — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:46:25 +0000

i’m sure the gyration remote is awesome. i’d love to have its positional tracking integrated with boxee.

as much as your setup works for you, i’m not sure it would befit users looking for a simple setup that does not require going through a full fledged browser, hitting bookmarks, and navigating through a site to locate content.

to each his own my friend

By: WayneThePain

WayneThePain — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:20:22 +0000

I have a Gyration 2.4 Ghz wireless remote + keyboard for my Vista Media Center and I don’t need anything other than that to get youtube, hulu, cbs, etc. onto my HDTV. It’s basically like any other media center remote with the added feature of also acting like a Wii remote, so you can use it to operate the mouse pointer easily. I just minimize Vista Media Center and open up Firefox where all my bookmarks are links to video sites.

Also, the Mac OS (OSuX) is horribly slow and the keyboard acceleration is poor compared to Windows. The Dock also pales in comparison to the Taskbar in terms of pure productivity (since I can see all windows, minimized or not, in one place… you have to use Expose on mac to get that and it’s not nearly as easy to see what’s running).

By: Wes

Wes — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:40:29 +0000

I want to start by saying that your product is pretty cool, that way you’ll know I mean no disrespect when I ask everyone, why are you so anxious about the windows version of this software? Guess what, there is already software that does pretty much everything this does. It’s called “Windows Media Center”. Ever heard of it? Yeah, me too. The only thing it doesn’t have the integrated social networking stuff and Hulu (which, I admit, is pretty cool cuz I love Hulu). And before you reply and say, “it doesn’t do a movie library”, google it. I’m not going to jump in on the whole Mac vs PC thing that a few people seem to be doing, I’m just saying if you really can’t wait for the windows version of Boxee, use Windows Media Center. It’s pretty damn close.

By: shane

shane — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:46:11 +0000

Um, what really tells you about the market is that Windows is 90% of the market share. October also gave Mac a pounding and Windows did okay. I have a Windows high-end machine and a PC with OS X and I dispise infantile fanboi-ism. There is no such thing as Mac vs PC. Both are PCs and BOTH run Windows. One of them runs a FreeBSD-based OS by default. There is your market research part 2… BOTH RUN WINDOWS! DOH!

OS X = nerfed Photoshop
OS X = gaming retarded
OS X = waiting on Steve to upgrade

By: chad

chad — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:02:31 +0000

I like the boxee on mac and linux, but I live in a windows world where netflix (until recently) only streams on PC. I’ve got to get boxee on windows so I can achieve my netflix + hulu dream combo!

By: joseph

joseph — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:54:16 +0000

yeah, keep repeating that, maybe someone will believe it… your just upset that for ONCE a company actually decided to think about Mac before Windows… god for bid that someone went against the grain. Every friggin company releases windows first and then says, “Oh, Mac? Uh… yeah, we’re looking into it.” So get off your high horse. Those that call others fanboys are obviously fanboys themselves on the other side of the argument. Just let it go. They chose Mac over your precious Windows, deal with it. Unlike most companies that won’t make Mac versions of their software, you should be thankful that Boxee is working on a Windows version. No thanking them, just whining and complaining from the lot of you! You all make me sick.

By: someguy

someguy — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:23:00 +0000

fanboys…

By: J

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:48:40 +0000

I think it was a pretty smart decision to go for the Mac first. We all know that the early adopter tribes in the mac movement can affect your distribution exponentially if you satisfy them. So far, you have impressed me, and I’ll be happy to let anyone in Italy about your product! We have been waiting for this software for years…. Thanks again… great work you guys! I’ll also be testing it in my Ubuntu 8.10 computers at home…! I have a tribe of rabid friends waiting to get their hands on this…! all running open source software!!! Let’s save the world!

By: J

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:37:55 +0000

You guys just rock… if I can add!

By: ben s

ben s — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:35:53 +0000

that pic of all the college students is awesome and exactly why microsoft is screwed.. they have the CIOs of today, but not the future.