sparaig wrote:
> --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
>
>> And BTW why the hell didn't you just go look at Apples own site on MPEG-4:
>> http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/mpeg4/
>> Oh that's right, they don't brag all over the place that they invented
>> it so it doesn't fit your argument.
>>
>>
>
> They don't brag about it?
>
> the google search string" quicktime mpeg-4 "file format" site:apple.com
>
> yields 432 hits on the apple.com website where they DO brag about it...
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yycsdd
>
> It was a VERY big thing for Apple given the time that it happened (1998),
> because there
> was so much negative publicity coming out about Apple's market share and so
> on. That a
> major industry standard would use a chunk of Apple technology gave them a
> great deal of
> positive PR to play with at that time.
>
> And I don't think that you can claim that a good basic design is easier to
> come up with
> than a codec. In fact, there are jillions of codecs and they can evolve in
> many directions.
> On the other hand, something as fundamental as the base file format which
> everything
> else will be put into needs to be gotten right from the start, even if it is
> modified
> substantially later on. You can't easily modify a building OR a computer
> program that has
> a poorly designed foundation. Ask Apple AND Microsoft about their legacy
> operating
> systems. Apple had to purchase NeXT in order to come up with a better OS, and
> MS is
> STILL trying to cope with poor design decisions dating back to DOS.
>
> You're a programmer. You know how important initial design decisions can be,
> especially
> when dealing with very complicated systems like MPEG-4. Why are you taking
> such an
> indefensible stance here?
Because I'm presenting the reality you are creating a fantasy. Try
reading the Apple article.
