In all Job's attacks on Flash, he didn't really talk about the technical limitations of Flash video for animation/interactivity/media synchronization - which is telling, since Apple systematically ignored Quicktime development & interactive Quicktime for years - and have basically just chopped Quicktime off at the knees. For 10 years Quicktime has been able to handle things that Flash still can't do.
If Jobs had made interactive Quicktime & Interactive Quicktime development a priority 10 years ago, or even 5 years ago when video was obviously about to happen in a big way, he might have avoided the explosion in Flash video and the problems he's getting now, so he's made his own bed AFAIC. And now come a bit late to the party to push a 3rd party patented codec that's not a great deal more useful than Flash, and dependent on HTML5 or Apps for interactivity. The ignoring and lack of development of Quicktime, one of their most powerful technologies, is the biggest of the growing number of things that (as a longtime Mac user) are making me dislike Apple more & more. On another list, Adrian Miles talked about his "frustration at industry 'innovators' wanting to treat video as a dumb object and devices for playback as blackboxes". Apple is the biggest culprit in this. Re the theora patent pool thing - as Verdi noted, it's the usual patent Fear Uncertainty & Doubt, with absolutely no idea of whether there's any substance that would allow an action to be brought, let alone won. It's the passive voice that I noticed - it's the present continuous tense - *is being* rather than *has been* or *was being* - - so it's something that's still underway, and presumably - since theora is not new - has been going on for a while. And I find it quite telling that VP8 hasn't featured in Job's letter or response. I hate the expression "elephant in the room" but really, the fact that he can't even bring himself to mention it says to me that it undermines his argument about H.264 v Flash, even though I agree with most of his points about Flash. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 2 May 2010, at 08:15, Joly MacFie wrote: > A fair point is made in the comments in that article, that it isn't > worth the patent trolls time and money unless someone deep-pocketed > like Apple gets involved, but then they coud well come out of the > woodwork. > > Another comment does, however, note his use of the passive tense to > describe this process. > > http://www.isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=789 > > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:56 AM, tom_a_sparks <[email protected] > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Michael Verdi <mich...@...> > wrote: > >> > >> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Joly MacFie <j...@...> wrote: > >> > > >> > >> > I also noted Jobs recent statement that Theora is not free of > >> > potential encumbrance. > >> > > > > > the same comments were give about vorbis, where are the court cases? > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast > WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com > http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com > Secretary - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
