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Irrespective of love or hate, support for open video standards would be better for everyone.
by Bnshsysjab 7y ago
Irrespective of love or hate, support for open video standards would be better for everyone.
- CharlesW 7y agoApple does support (and contribute to) open video standards.
- danbmil99 7y agosure, if by support you mean "embrace, extend, extinguish". Today, Apple is every bit as monopolistic and anti-competitive as Microsoft was during Peak Ballmer.
- CharlesW 7y agoIf that's the narrative you're focused on, you'll want to point to something else to support that. Apple not only uses standards-based compressed media formats exclusively, but the MPEG-4 file format is the QuickTime Movie file format (which Apple contributed to the standard).
- danbmil99 7y agoI'm referring to their gamesmanship wrt AV1. Of course they supported Mpeg4, they were part of the patent cartel (MPEG-LA) with a get-out-of-jail antitrust exemption and cross-licensing to other bigco's such as MS and Sony. One reason Google bought On2 and pushed VPx/webm/AV1 was because they didn't have video patents to use as trading chips in the cartel (On2 had several patents). Full disclosure: I was co-founder of On2
- CharlesW 7y ago> I'm referring to their gamesmanship wrt AV1. As I'm sure you know, Apple joined AOMedia to demonstrate their support of AV1, and they're actively looking for Media Video Engineers with experience in AV1 and other video standards[1]. If there's been anti-standards gamesmanship, I'm not aware of it and would appreciate it if you'd share what you know. [1] https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200109105/media-video-engineer-video-quality?team=SFTWR https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200109105/media-video-e...
- Bnshsysjab 7y agoI was replying to the parent comment who seemed to think this wasn’t the case. I use IOS but wouldn’t consider myself a ‘power user’ so either way is news to me