On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:55 AM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Fluxstringer wrote:
Lion ?
Don't know?
I went to the Apple site to watch the streaming video of the
presentation and was rudely greeted with this:
"Streaming video requires Safari 4 or 5 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard or
Safari on iOS 3 or later."
It's nothing new for a Web site to require one vendor's browser and
operating system in order to function, but typically that's been
Microsoft. So much for Apple's commitment to Web standards.
intellectual honesty and html5
by Christopher Blizzard
http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2010/06/intellectual-honesty-and-html5/
Seriously, *Snow Leopard*? Leopard isn't even three years old yet.
Apple still provides security updates for it. What's the deal here?
I'm on a PPC G5 with 10.5.8 and current Safari v. 5.0.2 (5533.18.5)
and I CAN'T see the streaming video because it REQUIRES Snow Leopard
10.6!!!
Unibody MacBook Pro, less than two years old, running the OS it
shipped with. I guess I'll be spared seeing the video, then.
I was *going* to watch the iPhone 4 keynote, and had started to watch
it, then paused it to attend to something else. I came back to it the
next day, unpaused... and hey, I don't remember this part... *rewind a
minute* nor this... *rewind a few more minutes* no, not this part
either... wait, what? This is the iOS 4 intro!
Yes, The streaming video server decided to replace my usual morning
video with Folger's brand and see if I'd notice the difference. But
even without such shenanigans, streaming video is worse than a
downloadable video file. Air travel is a perfect opportunity to watch
an hour-long video, since I'm sitting in one place for a while anyway
and free of Internet-sourced distractions (as well as the resources
that I often need to get work done). If they'd just let me download
it, I could watch it at my convenience. Of course, then people would
share it with others, depriving Apple of viewing metrics, and possibly
even *gasp* REMIX it. Which I thought was one of the things you were
supposed to do with a Mac -- be creative.
Sometimes Apple is so insane.
Apple is not what you or I wish they were.
Josh
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