Steve may have been a tad unrepresentative that "open video" issue.
Remember, this is the guy that controlled QuickTime and never opened it up. That was a bit of problem for open video supporters.
Remember, this is the guy that controlled QuickTime and never opened it up. That was a bit of problem for open video supporters.
(from your link)
Apple did in fact control Quicktime AND keep it very proprietary.
To insinuate that they were pro open source on video is revisionism.
The file format is still an ISO standard and pretty much anything reads it. Even Apple itself doesn't use the Quicktime container anymore (and hasn't for years). I didn't insinuate anything regarding open source, which doesn't appear anywhere in the part I quoted.
Edit: Oh, I noticed you significantly modified your first comment, that's why you now talk about open source when I never did. When I responded your comment read: “From the guy that tried to force QuickTime on us?”.
Also, the events described in your link all took place while Jobs was not at Apple.
My point was the Steve Jobs complaining about proprietary video is very ironic ... when he was pedaling his own proprietary video tech.
C'mon man.
"proprietary acceleration techniques"
http://web.archive.org/web/20010605082836/www.pa.msu.edu/~ha...
Steve Jobs was not at Apple between 1985 and 1997.
<i>More than 250 million copies of QuickTime 6 have been downloaded in > less than two years since its release. According to Frost & Sullivans > 2004 Global Media Streaming Platform Report, between 2002 and 2003 > Microsofts and Real Networks worldwide market share percentages were > either stable or declining while QuickTimes market share increased to > 36.8 percent, a close second to Microsoft. Real Networks came in third > place with less than 25 percent of the worldwide streaming market > share.</i>
Apple was never an "open source/open technology" white knight in video.