[opendtv] Re: News: New Cable Fight at Hand
- From: "Richard C. Ramsden" <ramsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:52:14 -0400
Apple's resistance to flash is economic!
It is a breach in their wall! If their players, and their software are
the only gate, they control access. Allowing flash means losing. That
would be losing just about everything.
When Apple started the iPod the store was a loss leader. Apple didn't
make any money on the store, but made on every iPod sold. Over time
that changed. Now the store is gold, and Apple still makes money on
over priced iPods. The iPhone and iPad are the recent/new market. They
are game changers. Personally I have a never locked Nexus1.
I wish I bought Apple stock 10 years ago, or google 6 yrs ago.
On 3/27/2011 10:57 PM, Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Apples resistance to Flash is based on simple facts. It is a processor
hog which kills battery life, and there are better stabdards based
solutions available today. The reality is that the majority of video
content on the web is now available in h.264, and FLASH is growing
less important by the day for video. It is still an important defacto
standard for all those banner ads, but HTML5 is going to change that too.
You might want to check what codec is being used for all the FLASH
content you watch. Another reality is that much of the FLASH content
out there is just a FLASH wrapper around an h.264 file. AND, a very
large percentage of site that serve video, like You Tube, will
negotiate with devices and deliver a compatible file.
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