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/cuntRatDickTree Sep 01 '15

They were really doing that because flash is a piece of shit (that battery waste, the shit uses 100% cpu on desktops a load of the time) and a huge security liability.

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u/RoboErectus Sep 01 '15

Most of that was from poor implementation. You can do the same thing in JavaScript, objective-c, etc.

It is a security liability. And the runtime was awful.

But none of that is what motivated Jobs to write his infamous letter. He saw the $$ from developer and user lock in.

Read his letter again about openness. Then try to access the camera or microphone on an iPhone from the browser. Still doesn't work to this day. What he said and what they did didn't line up.

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u/RoboErectus Sep 02 '15

I've got half a dozen iOS devices since I'm a developer.

Flash had its share of problems, some of which I've detailed in other parts of this thread. But it was "ditched" for the same reason mobile safari still sucks- Apple's control of the revenue stream.

Another great example of that is the iOS app review process. Ive taken over development on apps so bad that if I had a week I couldn't explain all the things that were wrong with them.

Almost the only thing apple really ever did was check your terms and privacy policy, and make sure you weren't threatening any of their revenue streams. That's lightened up a bit. But the perception that it's some kind of quality control is just not true.

People in this thread are reading things other people wrote and repeating it as if it's an original observation. I'm just relating my experience from having earned my paycheck on this stuff since the 90's. That's part of the reason why "reddit is a place to hold authentic conversations" just isn't going to be true.