[BC] Winamp

[Fred Gleason]

On Nov 21, 2013, at 13:01 07, Alan Kline <broadcast at snugglebunny.us> wrote:

> iTunes is an incredibly poor piece of software and a miserable media player.

Hard to argue with this (as one who gets to struggle with it regularly as part of maintaining a stable of iOS devices).

> I don't see where either Flash or HTML5 has anything to do with Winamp. 

I do remember a time when Winamp was the preferred app for listening to web streams on Windows system.  I used to see a lot of browsers that had it set up as a helper app for that.  Admittedly, back in the buggy whip era.  :)

> If anything involved qualifies as "buggy whip", it would be AOL--the 
> home of more bad business decisions than any other tech company which 
> has managed to survive. The fact that AOL survives at all is amazing, 
> and it would appear that Winamp's demise has more to do with AOL's 
> ineptitude than with any fault in the Winamp product.

Wouldn't argue with this either...

Cheers!

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