Here's another interesting point looking at the way mp3 ended up
becoming the defacto audio format on windows just as m$ was taking
over the pc game.
Ed Bott:
Microsoft began using the MP3 format in Windows Media Player in 1998.
Alcatel-Lucent filed its lawsuit in 2000. The FSF says “they
would have been safe” if they had chosen Ogg Vorbis. That
overlooks the inconvenient fact that the first stable version of the
Ogg Vorbis reference software (version 1.0) was notreleased until July
2002. It’s hard to imagine how Microsoft could have chosen the
“safe” open-source option when it didn’t exist yet.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=2086
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On May 3, 2010, at 10:42 PM, Ernest <[email protected]> wrote:
Steve Jobs feels betrayed by Adobe who after cutting their teeth on
Apple neglected the Apple platform for a larger PC market. As a
result, the Mac versions of the same products came out later, if at
all, after released on the PC platform. Adobe was probably thinking
the Mac would die anyway, looking at the buggy Mac version of Flash.
Now that the Mac presents a significant new large segment of the
market, its payback time for their betrayal.
Seriously, what steve cares about is money - not revenge or
something of the sort. All pointers translate to money for apple:
- flash is resource hungry, battery hungry: buggy phones mean
reduced customer confidence & less money
- iphone/ipad customers wanting flash based content can buy same
from app store: more money for apple
- eventually, html5 & h264 win - no more need to put resources into
interoperability with whomever dreams up another new cutting edge
codec or blah - even more money saved for apple (and everyone else).
- am sure there are many more..
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