'Back Row' project attempts to mimic Apple's Front Row for Windows

Apple FrontRow provides a basic media experience including Music, Photos, DVD, and Video. They don't even match the functionality provided by the initial MCE (Microsoft Windows Media Center) release," Casey Chesnut writes for brains-N-brawn. "Lack of TV recording is the biggest missing feature. Its only 'innovation' is the 6 button remote control. To get a good idea of its UI and its feature set I looked at the short videos on Apple's website and the press release video at news.com. This work was done by reverse engineering from the videos, I have never touched an iMac (or an iPod) in person ... nor would I ever want to. If I can't program it ... then what's the point?"

Chesnut provides screenshots comparing Apple's Front Row to his "backRow" along with some videos of "backRow" in use via - naturally - Windows Media Player in his full article here.

MacDailyNews Take:
Obviously, Macs can be "programmed" - just not by Chesnut. You'd think Chesnut would want to touch and learn how to program the Mac, since Windows is the preeminent example of a Mac derivative. He'd probably be able to make a better copy of Front Row if he actually tried it, instead of just looking at online videos. The irony, of course, is that Chesnut is making an Apple Front Row derivative to run on the Mac derivative Windows. Mac users sit in the front row of the innovation train, Windows users sit in caboose's back row. Microsoft's Windows is the Velvet Elvis to Apple Mac's Mona Lisa.
You want the real thing?
Get a Mac.
You want a backwards, upside-down, several-versions-old fake Mac on ugly hardware that also runs viruses, spyware, adware, and other assorted malware?
Get a Windows PC.