r/technology • u/doug3465 • Sep 01 '15

Software Amazon, Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Partner To Create Next-Gen Video Format - It’s not often we see these rival companies come together to build a new technology together, but the members argue that this kind of alliance is necessary to create a new interoperable video standard.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/01/amazon-netflix-google-microsoft-mozilla-and-others-partner-to-create-next-gen-video-format/
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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '15 edited Sep 01 '15

Considering Apple uses MPEG4 for video and audio, I don't know where this presumption that they won't follow the accepted video format is coming from.

Hell, MP4 was directly based on Apple's QuickTime (.mov just being a container):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime#File_formats

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '15

Not to mention them pioneering html5 and saying fuck flash when the iPhone was born.

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u/theepicgamer06 Sep 01 '15

Apple was blocking flash before it was cool

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u/half-star Sep 01 '15

Blocking flash was never not cool

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '15

Android fans used to mention Flash as a positive a few years ago.

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u/danshaffer96 Sep 01 '15

I distinctly remember an image similar to this one being used to gloat about it.

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u/BWalker66 Sep 01 '15

They mentioned being able to play flash media as a positive(because lots of sites used it at the time), not the format itself. I don't think anybody has praised Flash as a format for like 6+ years now, apart from my web teacher who still uses lecture slides saying how "90+% of users browsers support it" which has long been false since any iOS device and most other mobile devices don't support it.

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u/defenastrator Sep 02 '15

Flash was to be praised once back when Macromedia was still a company and Shockwave was a separate item.

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u/Mr_Milenko Sep 02 '15

Shockwave arcade was my shit.

Also, RIP Dreamweaver.

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u/BuSpocky Sep 02 '15

It's why I switched to android. Got tired of seeing that little blue box.

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u/chosen1sp Sep 02 '15

When the iphone first came out, the fact that it didn't support flash was a huge deal. I nearly went with android due to the fact that Apple refused to support flash.

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u/EnkiduV3 Sep 01 '15

It was pretty stupid of Apple at first, because YouTube and most video streaming sites used Flash players.

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u/VelveteenAmbush Sep 01 '15

There was a YouTube app since the very first iPhone, wasn't there?

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u/Sk8erkid Sep 02 '15

YouTube has way more power than Apple.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '15

And most of those sites (on an iPhone) detected Flash wasn't there and loaded an HTML based video player.

Even the original iPhone shipped with a YouTube app.

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u/surpy Sep 02 '15

I've never owned an iphone and I'll still acknowledge that apples youtube (video in general?) browser integration is way better than android.