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Quote: Originally Posted by dreyfus2 That is complete nonsense. According to the MPEG LA licensing terms (they are in charge of H.264) only the party selling content has to pay. So, if you download/watch a video on YouTube, nobody pays, as nobody…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody This is a bit of a misrepresentation. The only companies that I'm aware of that don't support H.264, do so for ideological reasons. For instance Mozilla (the creators of Firefox), has plenty of cash …
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This is another example why the U.S. and a handful of other countries have totally insane "intellectual property" laws. Software patents don't make sense. There are millions of different ways to implement a video codec, such as Ogg Theora, but …
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In Objective-C, private APIs (such as whatever were used for the wireless sync app) are not really private because developers can still find them due to the nature of the language and the runtime. This is in contrast to a managed runtime like Java …
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Blackberry is still the preferred smartphone for the enterprise. Usability aside, BBs still rule this market because of the enterprise software ecosystem, including custom apps, and the superior encryption features. Usability doesn't count for m…
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Apple isn't licensing that tech from Nokia even though everybody else in the industry is. These aren't software patents but patents on real physical technology. On the other hand, Nokia has refused to license the tech to apple on the same reason…
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One thing that Flash does is help keep Linux available as a desktop computing option. All web content is available to Linux users in part thanks to Flash. If that content switches to HTML 5 and H.264, then Linux users won't be able to view it w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by stormj I think if you actually tried using it in XCode, especially since Objective C 2.0 has come out, these concerns would be lessened or eliminated. I tried XCode and while there is code completion, it doesn't sta…
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On another topic, I saw the lack of multitasking as being the #1 disadvantage of the iPad. I see multitasking as being far more critical for the iPad than the iPhone/iPod touch because it's far more closer to a general computing device. Having …
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Sorry to be off topic a little. As much as Apple's tools impress me, including the new C lang and LLVM compiler, I can't help but ask myself why, in the interest of developer productivity and adoption, they haven't, at the very least, tried to gi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tofino 1. reverse the current adobe treatment of mac users. release 'apple photoshop' etc. with new features on the mac first, let windows development fall a couple years behind 2. sell lots and lots of high end mac p…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I have absolutely no idea what your point is. Support for HTML5 support and IE support are not mutually exclusive. The HTML5 video tag is a foregone conclusion for the future or video delivery on the web b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism You're right, but that is hardly an issue. There is nothing corporate websites need that require HTML5 on IE right now. The benefits of HTML5 can be seen in the consumer space, but are most relevant on mobile…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Google has removed IE6 support from their services since most of the attacks last month were from IE6 exploits. Overall IE6 has already been pushed out as the most common version of IE. OK, so IE 6 is on i…
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As long as IE 6 remains the corporate browser of choice, HTML 5 will have a hard time taking off. Consider this article: http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/02/Go...t-Old-Browsers Among the assertions: 1) As of April 30th, 2009, IE 6 represen…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. Me You make two contradictory statements. What is innovative about releasing a product that has already been released by another company? Making it better? There were MP3 players before the iPod, yet Apple per…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacTripper I hope so too, I have my own grievances with the new highly reflective screens, but Apple has proven it places the design of it's hardware above ergonomics. Luckily there was a massive outpouring of hostilit…
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I don't understand why Apple hasn't yet introduced a multi-touch keyboard/mouse surface as FingerWorks has. For a company that prides itself on innovation, they're being surprisingly conservative. I was surprised that they came out with the Magi…
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Looks like Firefox isn't supported because it's an open source project that can't pay royalties on the patent-encumbered H.264 codec.
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Perhaps this is one of the reasons that Apple is rearchitecting iTunes to be less of a fat client app and wore of a webapp? It's now possible to listen to music previews using only a web browser. Soon, it will be possible to buy music over a web…