Maxthon Browser now support Podcasts!

[netanel]

The Maxthon Browser (31million downloads) now supports Podcast! www.maxthon.com . You can now subscribe, add your feed and listen streaming directly through your browser while surfing the net.

[Patrick]

Lame.

[cpjolicoeur]

Lame.

ditto

[Steev]

<sarcasm>
My browser <insert browser name here> supports podcasting too! I click on the link to the MP3 and it opens in <insert media player here> and streams the MP3 while I browse the web.
</sarcasm>

And what's the deal with flash players embedded on web pages? Doesn't everybody have a streaming-capable media pleyer anyway?

[Patrick]

It's stupid because:

A) this isn't even a browser - it's an IE re-hash.

B) No one is buying the 30 million number. Seriously. 30 million people use iTunes. Are you telling me that 30 million people use this shitty IE overlay? Not likely. Opera was striving for 1 million downloads of Opera 8 and I would be surprised if that number doesn't far outweigh the users of this crap.

30 million downloads (which I don't buy anyway) doesn't mean 30 million users. You think you have half the market share of Firefox? 6% of the browser market? You're on crack.

[netanel]

Nice guys in here...Well if you would have some more insight into the browser space you would know that 50% of our market is in China, the head of IE dev. is actually using Maxthon himself. It is a browser running on the IE kernel - so what? Nobody is trying to compare himself to firefox, netscape, opera or even IE. But the fact that many millons of users are using it means that they like it - weather you like it or not. There is enought space out there for everyone. Ask Chris Pirillo and Scoble what they think of Maxthon....There is no need to offend people to score a point -it is very cheap. People use what they like some use iTunes others ipodder etc. Some like your show while others think differently

[Hittman]

I just visited the page, and had a good laugh.

Wow, a browser with all the security risks of IE and half the features of Firefox (but not nearly as well supported.) Woo Hooo! Sign me up!

But the best part, the very best part, as all those little award tags at the bottom of the page. I took all those off my web site six months after it went up. That was six years ago (two standard eternities in internet time) because they were tired and trite and lame back then. All you need now is the Waving Flag gif, or the little Scotty dog running back and forth, and you're site will be complete!

Believe it or not, there is a right way to spam, a perfectly acceptable way that will get very little derision, if any, from your fellow forum members.

The Right Way: Join a forum. Get involved with the conversations. Make some contributions to what's going on, and get to know some of the people. Then, and only then, put a big splashy graphic in your signature.

The Wrong Way: Join a forum. Make your very first post in a forum you've never visited before consist of spam for a product no one needs. Then spend a few days trying vainly to defend the hoots and hollers that come your way, until you retreat in shame, with your tail between your legs, perhaps offering a parting shot complaining "You're being mean to me!"

The Wrong Way: (Reader's Digest Condensed Version) The way you did it.

[Hittman]

Just for fun, I checked last months stats for my web site. Here's what they had to say about browsers:

MS Internet Explorer 71.1 %
FireFox 11.7 %
Unknown 5.5 %
Apple iTunes (media player) 3.1 %
Safari 2.5 %
Konqueror 2.3 %
Mozilla 1 %
Netscape 1 % (Sad, isn't it? How the mighty have fallen.)
Opera 0.6 %
NetNewsWire 0.5 %
Others .2%

Gee, I don't see ANY Maxon in there. (Unless, of course, your coders were so talentless they left it looking like IE.) Could you be down there in that .2%, along with Web TV and other fine browsers?

[cpjolicoeur]

the head of IE dev. is actually using Maxthon himself.

This is such a BS quote I can't believe that you even made it. Just think about what you are saying next time.

Nobody is trying to compare himself to firefox, netscape, opera or even IE. But the fact that many millons of users are using it means that they like it - weather you like it or not. There is enought space out there for everyone. Ask Chris Pirillo and Scoble what they think of Maxthon....

Actually, you are trying to compare yourself to IE, and Firefox and Opera. You are using IE backbone, and implementing a whole bunch of firefox features and extensions. You definately are trying to be and compare yourself to these other browsers.

Ask Chris Pirillo and Scoble what they think of Maxthon....

Umm... who cares what Chris Pirillo or Scoble think? are their opinions (real or paid for) of THE MIGHTY 32 MILLION USER MAXTHON supposed to sway the mighty masses into a browser revolution. since pirillo and the ponzi "like it" we are supposed to follow the Chinese and jump on board...

[Steev]

I think the only reason 32 million can be clamed (if it's the truth) is because he's counting all downloads of all versions (and there's about 60 of them (http://www.maxthon.com/support/history.htm)) from v0.1 to the current v1.3.3. Note that this in no way implies 32 million users, just 32 million downloads including versions from as far back as 2002.

[Patrick]

Exactly. It's the lamest "We're really big in China" post I've ever heard.

[netanel]

Guys, you are right, I shouldn't even have thought of addressing this audience. It was a big mistake and I apologize. I just though of informing you that Maxthon now support podcast and for the next major release we look for input to improve it significantly. I still think that this aggressive attach was totally unessecary and meaningless. If anybody still cares, listen to the PC World radios short clip http://www.lets-talk-computers.net/quest/maxthon/maxthon.html. Maxthon was actually listed by PC Magazine on the 100 best products 2005.
I will now leave this forum and continue to talk to podcasters who really care and are open minded. Hasta la vista.

[Patrick]

I really care, I'm just not switching to a crappy IE-based browser with half-assed features when there are much better solutions out there.

[Hittman]

The Wrong Way: Join a forum. Make your very first post in a forum you've never visited before consist of spam for a product no one needs. Then spend a few days trying vainly to defend the hoots and hollers that come your way, until you retreat in shame, with your tail between your legs, perhaps offering a parting shot complaining "You're being mean to me!"

Guys, you are right, I shouldn't even have thought of addressing this audience. It was a big mistake and I apologize. I just though of informing you that Maxthon now support podcast and for the next major release we look for input to improve it significantly. I still think that this aggressive attach was totally unessecary and meaningless. If anybody still cares, listen to the PC World radios short clip http://www.lets-talk-computers.net/quest/maxthon/maxthon.html. Maxthon was actually listed by PC Magazine on the 100 best products 2005.
I will now leave this forum and continue to talk to podcasters who really care and are open minded. Hasta la vista.

Do I have the gift of prophesy, or what?

My next prediction; Both Al Frankin and Ann Coluter will say something incredibly stupid this week. (The only real difference between the two is Al's testicles are smaller.)

[bestplaces]

You boys are *****les for jumping on this guy. Regardless of your preference in browsers, get a life.
His post was harmless and informative for some. I'm sure your adolescent egos will survive, besides the browser wars are SO over...

[Patrick]

Thanks, but this thread already has a resident idiot.

[cpjolicoeur]

hey, misery loves company...

or is that phrase SO over...

[Hittman]

You boys are *****les for jumping on this guy. Regardless of your preference in browsers, get a life.
His post was harmless and informative for some. I'm sure your adolescent egos will survive, besides the browser wars are SO over...

This is your first post. Gee, I wonder who you could be.

We're not *****les for jumping on this guy. He deserved it. I can't speak for anyone else, but I am an *****le for other reasons, nothing as trivial as harassing a spammer.

Especially one with more than one account.

[pulsingcinema]

It's odd Maxthon comes up here since I just tried it out during my recent attempts to make a windows-based browser resemble Safari. Maxthon kind of gets there with it's Safari theme (well, not exactly) but it's burdened by the IE engine and it just seems like it has a lot of crap enabled by default that just annoys me and unduly clutters the whole interface; actually I think most browsers that use IE as their engine share this problem. Firefox has much simpler interface and better Safari themes but it's still not perfect.