01-30-2010, 07:23 PM
Adobe's claims are a bold-face lie and Apple is just waiting for the day they go mainstream in making Adobe eat their face on the issue!
If you're following ANYTHING that's going on with the new HTML5 standard you KNOW that both YouTube and Vimeo have enabled HTML5 viewing on nearly all their videos, videos that most people think are currently only available via FLASH. AND, all those HTML5 videos render AMAZINGLY well on Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome browsers, in fact, they render faster and better than FLASH!
So, if Apple's really just trying to protect their revenue stream, why would they be the first (along with Google) to embrace HTML5 (an open source, opposed to FLASH)?
The fact that FLASH is slow on the Mac OS (and Linux) is really no one but Apple's fault. Let's be honest, if Microsoft can get Flash to render fast and quick in IE and Windows there's no logical explanation of why Apple wouldn't be able to do the same. Apple just doesn't want to devote the resources and cow-tow to Adobe and their proprietary formats. Despite an attempt at being publicly amiable towards each other, Steve and Apple DESPISE the direction Adobe has taken itself in the past 5-10 years, and some of that may come from feeling betrayed by strengthening development on the Windows platform.
The truth is Steve and Apple just don't want to have to program their OS and applications for a company they despise. I wish Mac fans would stop spreading false truths and saying that it's Adobe's fault Flash doesn't render quickly on a Mac. It's Apple's fault, but it's by CHOICE. Of course, those of us who drink at least a little of the Kool-Aid believe there's a reason for that choice. And, in seeing HTML5, you'll all finally see WHY that choice was made.
~A
If you're following ANYTHING that's going on with the new HTML5 standard you KNOW that both YouTube and Vimeo have enabled HTML5 viewing on nearly all their videos, videos that most people think are currently only available via FLASH. AND, all those HTML5 videos render AMAZINGLY well on Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome browsers, in fact, they render faster and better than FLASH!
So, if Apple's really just trying to protect their revenue stream, why would they be the first (along with Google) to embrace HTML5 (an open source, opposed to FLASH)?
The fact that FLASH is slow on the Mac OS (and Linux) is really no one but Apple's fault. Let's be honest, if Microsoft can get Flash to render fast and quick in IE and Windows there's no logical explanation of why Apple wouldn't be able to do the same. Apple just doesn't want to devote the resources and cow-tow to Adobe and their proprietary formats. Despite an attempt at being publicly amiable towards each other, Steve and Apple DESPISE the direction Adobe has taken itself in the past 5-10 years, and some of that may come from feeling betrayed by strengthening development on the Windows platform.
The truth is Steve and Apple just don't want to have to program their OS and applications for a company they despise. I wish Mac fans would stop spreading false truths and saying that it's Adobe's fault Flash doesn't render quickly on a Mac. It's Apple's fault, but it's by CHOICE. Of course, those of us who drink at least a little of the Kool-Aid believe there's a reason for that choice. And, in seeing HTML5, you'll all finally see WHY that choice was made.
~A