HN hates Gruber with a passion but votes his review all the way to the top. Beats me.
Here are other reviews but they all sound pretty much like Gruber’s:
http://www.macworld.com/article/158439/2011/03/ipad2.html
Here are other reviews but they all sound pretty much like Gruber’s:
http://www.macworld.com/article/158439/2011/03/ipad2.html
Hardly a new account, though it is his first comment.
I don't think it's him, though; I imagine the real Gruber would have tried to take http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gruber (which is still available), so as to match his Twitter username.
And both are getting scary powerful.
Basically, you're replacing a closed codec with an open one. MS and Apple will put WebM in IE and Safari if there's sufficient adoption, as it doesn't cost them anything to do so.
You may not care about open codecs that aren't laden with patents, but I can't see how this makes things worse. All of the kvetching about this move extending Flash's lifetime is pointless given the fact it wasn't going anywhere anyway.