Apple Users Petition Prime Minister
February 21, 2007
UK Apple users are petitioning the Prime Minister Tony Blair over the BBC’s decision to make streaming media available to Windows users only. The BBC plans to launch an on-demand tv service which uses software that will only be available to Windows users.
The BBC should not be allowed to show commercial bias in this way, or to exclude certain groups of the population from using its services. The BBC say that they provide ’services for everyone, free of commercial interests and political bias’.
Locking the new service’s users into Microsoft Windows whilst ignoring those members of society who use other operating systems should does not fit in with the BBC’s ethos and should not be allowed. To sign the petition visit : 10 Downing Street.
[Note : For those of you who have emailed thanking us for the petition we can not take credit. DigMo! did not create the petition we are merely showing our support by posting the information one site for our users.]
BBC have promised a Mac Compatible version of the iplayer around October
Great news all round.
I would like to add that it isn’t just for Apple users, this petition. You failed to mention it is for other operatin systems too, such as linux.