Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event
by MCRed on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @12:56PM
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Bonjour was released under an open source license, part of it the Apache license, and does not require a royalty to be paid to Apple.
I turned on HTML5 video for youtube and I still have this problem, because they don't encode all videos in MP4.
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event
by deelowe on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:11PM
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You seem to have missed this bit
> Because people would have to pay licensing fees several times for the same stream
Many groups have spoken out about the licensing issues with pictures, video, and audio. That's what has created this mess.
> Frankly, I think its appalling that youtube, for instance, is still running on flash.
Everyone can turn on HTML5 for YouTube if they wish. They offer both. They give you the choice, the default is Flash (but Flash still has the widest support on older platforms).
> Why I can't I access all the videos over MP4?
Because people would have to pay licensing fees several times for the same stream (e.g. sender and receiver both have to pay $$$, sometimes the sender, browser vendor AND OS vendor have to pay $$$).
> Meanwhile these competitors rush to copy everything else Apple does.
And Apple copies everything their competitors do also. Just look at iOS 8, that was just copying some of the best features from their competition (not that I blame them, they were right to do so).
The new keyboard (Android), third party keyboards (Android), "Handoff" (everyone else), Spotlight web-search (everyone else), etc.
Apple hasn't done anything original since Jobs died.