[opendtv] Re: OK... Now I get it
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:37:13 -0500
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> How could I have been so blind?
>
> It's not like Apple has created anything here right? They just come
> into a market late and use their market power to dominate it. How
> unfair.
>
> Poor Adobe. They have built what amounts to an industry standard
> with Flash and now Apple won't let them play. Clearly Adobe should
> be determining what Apps look like on ALL smart phones...
> So Apple should just make certain that the iPhone OS is capable of
> doing everything that every other smart phone OS can do,
Craig, inconsistent arguments make you sound hopeless.
In a previous post you wrote:
> Enter Google to throw a wrench into the whole thing, buying On2 and
> possibly giving it away as open source. Didn't Microsoft try to do
> the same thing with the SMPTE with VC-1?
>
> Could it be that this really does not matter?
>
> Could it be that it is possible to support a variety of codecs and
> keep adding them in the future?
>
> Could it be that the real battle is the way that all of this stuff
> is wrapped up and controlled at the applications layer?
Apparently not, as far as Apple is concerned.
But I can't blame Apple for trying to control of everything. It's the buying
public that's to blame, as is always the case. The groupies, in this case, the
faithful, the devout, the lemmings.
Bert
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