Tag Archive | "H.264"
Steve Jobs not impressed with Google’s open source video format
Google is hitching its wagon to an open source and royalty free video format known as “WebM” which utilizes the Google owned VP8 codec which they acquired when they purchased On2 Technologies back in February. Google is hoping that this 1-2 punch will rival the Apple backed H.264 standard. And despite reports that Google’s move […]
Continue reading...Prevalence of H.264 video content in HTML 5 skyrockets 160%
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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The video search site MeFeedia recently released data indicating that the number of online videos encoded in the iPad friendly H.264 format increased by 160% in the 4 months since Apple’s January Pad announcement. In May 2010, 26% of online videos were available for playback in HTML 5 using the H.264 format. Back in January, […]
Continue reading...Another Steve Jobs email, this time about open standards and open source
Saturday, May 1, 2010
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After reading Steve Jobs’ thoughts on Flash (i.e why Flash sucks), Hugy Roy of Berlin emailed Jobs the following: Dear Steve Jobs, Having read your Thoughts on Flash, I could not agree with you more. Flash is not the Web, and I am glad Apple seizes the opportunity of open standards to build better products for […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs goes off on Flash during visit with the Wall Street Journal
Friday, February 19, 2010
A few weeks ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs reportedly made a trip down to New York City where he hobnobbed with executives from both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal in an effort to further highlight the potential of the iPad as just the device to save print media. While we’re obviously not […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs hates Blu-Ray, Apple’s secret weapon to fight Hackintosh boxes, and more
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
An interesting article over at ThePulpit talks about Steve Jobs wish for Blu-Ray to die, H.264 in Snow Leopard, HD content distribution via iTunes, and how Apple is positioning itself for future battles against clone makers such as Psystar. Excerpt from the article: “Turning to Nvidia isn’t the same as doing the chipset itself, but […]
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Friday, May 21, 2010
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