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

[haineux.livejournal.com]

As our mutual pal Anthro says, if the idea is to play H.264 with hardware acceleration, it looks like a very small piece code calling QTKit will do it.

Indeed, a few moments of asking developer.apple.com yielded:
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/QTKitApplicationTutorial/Introduction/Introduction.html

But I hardly know how to use this stuff, so maybe I'm missing something.

[dr-strych9.livejournal.com]

I've heard much the same thing from sources I will not identify publicly.

However, let me say this: if there is a reasonable way that Apple might go around Adobe to make Flash on Mac OS X use hardware acceleration without requiring modification of its installation products, then I'd very much like to know what it is. Seriously. Email me at my work address.