After yesterday’s news of the self-serving lies poured from Steve Jobs’ Open Letter, we have some good news: newteevee reports that Google will announce the opening of VP8 at the Google I/O , which starts on May 19, 2010. Why is this huge? Because if Flash video is to disappear, only to be replaced by another proprietary codec, H.264, the web and its billions of users will gain nothing. MPEGLA , the entity which represents the patent holders of H.264, recently extended the term for royalty-free licensing un
To deflect the complaints about the lack of Flash on the iPad, Steve Jobs has issued a press release, stating what he wants the gullible to believe are his reasons for excluding Flash from the i-Ecosystem. Of course, we all know that the main reason for the banning of Flash and Java from the iPad is that Flash and Java can bypass Apple's delivery system, and reduce Apple's revenue from selling to their captive audience things that are often available on the web for free. Below are relevant excerpts from the
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