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post #121 of 129
5/15/10 at 11:29am
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Originally Posted by Stevie View Post

Apple's strategy has caused them to lose the desktop and the laptop markets.

Have you ever thought that perhaps Apple chooses not to be a bottom feeder, because it sounds like you're suggesting that Apple has no choice in the matter?

Yep, Apple is really hurting.

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post #122 of 129
5/16/10 at 8:20pm
Choosing between a Dell, HP, Toshiba, Acer are the options the far majority of people choose. Windows is not a choice.


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You said that most people don't choose Windows, it was the default OS on the computer they purchase. Unless they were forced to buy a particular brand of computer, then yes they did choose Windows, otherwise they would have purchased a Mac, or a computer than came with Linux preloaded had they wanted another OS.
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post #123 of 129
5/16/10 at 8:24pm
Can you post some numbers showing that Apple is loosing the laptop desktop markets. Apple has never really played in the enterprise market to loose it.

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Apple's strategy has caused them to lose the desktop and the laptop markets. And the server market. And enterprise sales in general.
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post #124 of 129
5/16/10 at 9:09pm
Is there a reason for Hulu to support iPad's Safari browser directly? Why can't they develop their own application with authentication and a webview embedded into it? That should be secure enough. Also, H.264 is the most widely used now. That is not high performance for Hulu?

The post is all about lame excuses. Hulu need to hire more competent people.
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post #125 of 129
5/16/10 at 10:21pm
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Is there a reason for Hulu to support iPad's Safari browser directly? Why can't they develop their own application with authentication and a webview embedded into it? That should be secure enough. Also, H.264 is the most widely used now. That is not high performance for Hulu?

The post is all about lame excuses. Hulu need to hire more competent people.

And yet again, someone posts without reading any of the thread. We've answered your question several times already. Hulu is perfectly competent. They are, however, bound to whatever the content providers want them to use, and right now that's Flash, for better or worse. Even the Hulu desktop applications use Flash. Again, it's not about security. It's about you watching the shows they way that they want to provide them to you to protect older revenue streams. No more, no less.
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post #126 of 129
5/16/10 at 10:41pm
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And yet again, someone posts without reading any of the thread. We've answered your question several times already. Hulu is perfectly competent. They are, however, bound to whatever the content providers want them to use, and right now that's Flash, for better or worse. Even the Hulu desktop applications use Flash. Again, it's not about security. It's about you watching the shows they way that they want to provide them to you to protect older revenue streams. No more, no less.

Four pages of mostly off topic arguments aren't worth reading. Thanks for the summary.
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post #127 of 129
5/17/10 at 5:57am
The studios are not forcing Hulu to provide content in Flash specifically. ABC, NBC, CBS all provide H.264 streams that are viewable on either the iPhone or iPad. The use of Flash is about security and the ability to show commercials. Which HTML5 video is not set up to provide in the same way. The only thing that is holding up a native Hulu app is negotiations over a direct payment revenue model.


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And yet again, someone posts without reading any of the thread. We've answered your question several times already. Hulu is perfectly competent. They are, however, bound to whatever the content providers want them to use, and right now that's Flash, for better or worse. Even the Hulu desktop applications use Flash. Again, it's not about security. It's about you watching the shows they way that they want to provide them to you to protect older revenue streams. No more, no less.
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post #128 of 129
5/17/10 at 5:18pm
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Originally Posted by TenoBell View Post

Choosing between a Dell, HP, Toshiba, Acer are the options the far majority of people choose. Windows is not a choice.

So, you are then saying that the OS is not very high criteria when selecting a computer, basically people don't care what OS they are running.
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post #129 of 129
5/18/10 at 3:55pm
From that fact that one OS is used on 90% of the computers around the world. In what scenario do the majority of people walk into any computer retailer and make the OS a major part of their purchase? What selections are they choosing from?

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So, you are then saying that the OS is not very high criteria when selecting a computer, basically people don't care what OS they are running.
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