WebM for Internet Explorer
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Notably, "Nvidia is supporting VP8 and provides both hardware decoding and encoding in the Tegra 4 chipset."
That said, i had so high hopes for ONE standardized video codec in HTML5, but the w3c/whatwg just fucked it up (or better yet MS, Apple and Co. who couldn't agree on one standard just for profit-reasons).
Odd that the two companies you explicitly mention were just fine using h264 and didn't really stand to make money off the decision.
Apple also once held up the release of a new version of QuickTime until the Mpeg-LA backed down from the crazy royalty structure they planned for AAC.
But they failed this time, so Apple supporters pretend everything is fine with the current royalty system, and Apple opponents pretend they never even tried.
Someone needs to say: product X or fuck off.
Google Reader is dead and it's not coming back. Reader usage was extremely low and it made no business sense for Google to run it. If Reader actually had enough users, Google wouldn't have shut it down. Many entrepreneurs, including me in the past, have had to take this decision to shut our services because they did not have enough traction. Failure is part of taking a risk and you should be more appreciative of the risk.
I was angry at the Reader shutdown too as I was an avid Reader user. I was quick to switch to Feedly but lately I find myself being infrequent checking my RSS feed. I seem to be getting more and more of my news from techmeme and hacker news. When I talk to tech friends about this, it seems the they were already doing this. The rest of the world had already moved on and I was just late to realize this.
Was I angry at first? Yes. Am I still angry? No.
PS: I'm an engineer at Google right now.
The "Google kills all their products" whisper only started with Reader because it's awfully hard to get anyone mad about the shutdown of Sidewiki or audio ads.
As far as I remember the translate API was the first of the recent closures that really caused a storm.
The point was that a lot of people were upset about it when the closure was announced, and thus we can see that people have been getting annoyed at Google for closing things down since well before Reader was shut. This is counter to the claim of the Google employee above that everybody loved it when Google canned products before Reader.
Add this to your gitignore: http://gitignore.io/api/intellij
WebM for Internet Explorer is a plugin. It needs to stay supported.
Seriously, why so much negativity?
Please don't spread misinformation; this doesn't happen.
All the while serving ads that are suited to your taste based on the video you are watching.
Yes, Google is able to show you videos for free by using ads. Would you prefer that they weren't suited to your taste or related to the video that you're watching? And would you prefer to have to see more ads because they would be less effective in that case?
Disclosure: googler.
I don't think it's unreasonable to forecast that this IE9 plugin might get discontinued at some point for a combination of { no traction, better alternatives from ffmpeg/vlc, irrelevance of VP8 when VP9 is out }. At the same time, I can't see it as a crucial part of any business (I doubt there will be any WebM-based business soon, for now), so I don't see a real problem in getting/using it while it exists.
Yes, of course it will get discontinued at some point. Just like any other software project by any other company.
This particular project is similar to Chrome Frame. It's a stopgap solution. It adds/polyfills functionality which should be there out of the box. It's supposed to lose its raison d'être. That's what we're all wishing and waiting for.