How Winamp vanished of our computers?

 This year celebrates its 15th birthday once a leading media player Winamp. Using this rather long Chronos scored tycio ups but downs, moving seamlessly from a status such as mandatory equipment for each computer to the forgotten (well, almost) relic of the past. Where a mistake with the answer to this question I hastened to the U.S. (and quite popular) set of crockery Ars Technica. Before the advent of Winamp, the only relatively good players on the market, the current Windows Media Player and Real Player. And - a mediocre one, in the mid-nineties, had no support for playlists, skins (which today would be unimaginable) and a substantial number of visual effects, which we had in this case, on to deal in Winamp. What's more, none of them was also in fact "tight" and effectively written when he was. Even today, the installer player for Macs version weighs barely 4.2MB, while allocated to these devices is iTunes 170MBowym fat man until the Windows Advanced Multimedia Products (WinAMP) player was released on the market in April 1997. A year later, the firmamatka NullSoft as it actually became a fully legitimate business, Winamp transformed into 10dolarowy shareware. I know what I say - the shareware earn as much as emptiness, after all, such as Winamp denies this thesis Nothing will spoil [if you did not pay], it was not there any features that a fee like a bolt from the blue to odblokowywały - says Rob Lord were the highest-ranking comprehensive NullSoft's. In the year before the fury of our company earned the license fees in the middle of $ 100,000 Winamp Winamp fairly quickly after his debut, won the hearts of users and turned out to be a big hit, largely contributing to the spread of the so-called. "Emp3's" which since the appearance of the player on the market is defiant friendlier to use and storage. Yes, a huge hit that, in June 1999, AOL acquired the company too as if 80,100 million. That the relationship started, unfortunately, does not end happyendem. As a result, the management of its resources nieudolnemu, AOL Winamp team stifled creativity and finally led to the fall of the legendary player, There is no reason why he could not stay Winamp today on iTunes vsio position by improper exercise of leadership by AOL, which began shortly after the acquisition NullSoftu. Justin Frankel, the best Winamp developer, said in an interview that "he hopes that in the end they realize that without haste kill Winamp and find some way to repair it. AOL aliści always seemed to dip into the swamp's own internal policies, which prevent tycio him. "Then, the object light, appeared extremely iTunes and other popular players today. In a large, very very simply, but in fact one of the most strife the players of the world is more complicated than the high it could be implied from those of several of these fragments. In any case, this sad story and raise a two questions - firstly, why? Second, what type of player from what twenty-four hours you are using and why it is not Winamp?