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I won't comment on MSFT, because they have a really fucked up attitude towards open standards. But Apple, whether you like it or not, supports open standards (a
by pavs 17y ago
I won't comment on MSFT, because they have a really fucked up attitude towards open standards. But Apple, whether you like it or not, supports open standards (at-least when it comes to browsers). There is no reason why Apple won't support an open format over H264, if the performance is comparable.
If I had stakes at H264 or any proprietary video coded/format. I would be concerned for my future.
- DrJokepu 17y agoSteve Jobs himself said a couple of days ago: All video codecs are covered by patents. A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other “open source” codecs now. Unfortunately, just because something is open source, it doesn’t mean or guarantee that it doesn’t infringe on others patents. An open standard is different from being royalty free or open source. Source: http://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2010/04/open-letter-to-steve-jobs/ http://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2010/04/open-letter-to-steve-jobs...
- pavs 17y agoYou think Google doesn't know that? You think Google just spent $100 million without investigating on patent problems and how they will deal with them? Was Steve referring to VP8, its not opensource now, he is most likely only referring to existing open source codec.
- acg 17y agoFUD? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1312180 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1312180
- acg 17y agoThere is a reason, Apple will get revenue from the likes of Google. Apple is a licensee of H264.
- vetinari 17y agoApple won't support open formats, even if they are technically superior to encumbered ones. For example, see Vorbis and FLAC support in Quicktime.