another cultural lesson

[rone]

If it had been Microsoft that started strangling the life out of Flash, Mac weenies worldwide would have been up in arms.  But because it's Apple, all of a sudden it's OK and part of the circle of life on the Internets.

Also, how did Robert Scoble's opinion become worthy of any modicum of respect?  The man is an affront to oxygen-breathing lifeforms worldwide.

Comments

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Not that I disagree with the large strokes of your point here, but Microsoft did try to strangle Flash, and what they offered as a replacement was pretty much "like Flash, only owned by us!" Nobody bit. Apple is pushing an open standard that they are not the only implementer of; I'm perhaps naive enough to think that that's not a bad thing. (The ten-alarm goat rodeo surrounding format support for <video&rt; is of course another issue, but I'm at least a little sympathetic to Apple's disinterest in Open Sauce Purity: the number of video producers I've met who have any investment in or desire to construct a workflow based around Ogg Theora is precisely zero...)

Also: Fuck Adobe. Seriously. Is there anyone from MM even left in the Flash division at this point?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Probably still some people, but yes, there certainly isn't any sympathy for Adobe here. Macromedia's handling of Flash was never the smoothest, but it has certainly degraded since Adobe took over.

[dr-strych9.livejournal.com]

the number of video producers I've met who have any investment in or desire to construct a workflow based around Ogg Theora is precisely zero...

On a related note (http://bemasc.net/wordpress/2010/02/02/no-you-cant-do-that-with-h264/), it's worth remarking that H.264 may be open, but— like Flash and just about everything else besides Theora— it is certainly far, far, far from liberation.