<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:24 PM, David Gerard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dgerard@gmail.com">dgerard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
2009/7/16 Adam Shannon <<a href="mailto:ashannon1000@gmail.com">ashannon1000@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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> It has been tried but Apple will not implement it due to hardware<br>
> limitations.<br>
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</div>Hardware limitations or patent limitations? Either seems ill-matched<br>
to evidence-based reasoning.<br>
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What was Apple's issue with Vorbis audio? I'd like to hear from Apple on this.<br>
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(Someone who is actually speaking for Apple, not someone who appears<br>
to be speaking for Apple then claims "oh I was just speaking as<br>
myself" when called on something unacceptable.)<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This was from an email that Ian posted, I do not know if it is directly from Apple. I am just posting it as reference, you will have to ask Ian to the source/creditability of the statement.</div>
<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; "><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; ">"Apple refuses to implement Ogg Theora in Quicktime by default (as used by Safari), citing lack of hardware support and an uncertain patent landscape."</pre>
</span></div><div> ( <a href="http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-June/020620.html">http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-June/020620.html</a> )</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>- Adam Shannon ( <a href="http://ashannon.us">http://ashannon.us</a> )<br>