...signing off from broadband, said Amanda Sabia, principal research analyst at Gartner. Keeping demand strong were cheaperPCs, migration from dial-up, cheaper broadband subscriptions, aging populations that needed broadband connectivity...
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/09/28/237887/broadband-market.htm
...Poor cross-platform performance seems to have been its downfall - Apple controls the hardware in its computers, but cheaperPCs often had insufficient graphics capabilities, and many people found QuickTime unusable on Windows. Windows Media...
http://www.webmasterworld.com/video/3620427.htm