The 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 wi

The 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.