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The previous capabilities of Quicktime, Airport Utility, Disk Utility, and Pages did not come back. The "new" Quicktime was introduced 8 years ago. The pattern
by cjensen 9y ago
The previous capabilities of Quicktime, Airport Utility, Disk Utility, and Pages did not come back. The "new" Quicktime was introduced 8 years ago.
The pattern we've seen is Apple decides to re-write a utility because reasons. The new version comes out as part of a major OS release. Then nothing further happens.
The exceptions are the major apps like iTunes, Safari, iMovie, and iPhoto. Also the "discoveryd" re-write is extremely noteworthy in that it was fully withdrawn and replaced by its predecessor.
- nyreed 9y agoThe loss of codec support in Quicktime was probably related to improving battery life by forcing use of H264, which is hardware accelerated. Whether this is wise is a different question. But no you're right, there is a definite pattern of feature loss going back to iMovie HD 5. I'm still using Pages '09 because it does what I want and feels snappier.
- cjensen 9y agoAlso the entirety of Quicktime Pro, which enabled full transcoding control was lost.