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I don't think many (outside of perhaps Apple PR?) have argued that fingerprint security is great, absolutely speaking. Relatively speaking, however, it is great, as many phone owne…

Replace "Apple" with "Any company that makes cameras/phones/etc." and the same point would be made. Sucks to be the big dog, I guess.

Even if the app is only around and viable for a year, if you use it every day, is it really so hard to justify spending $20 on it? I'm really glad we have companies like Tapbots, P…

This is the funniest headline I've seen in weeks.

It's the "iPad Killer" syndrome all over again. How many times has the iPad's or iPhone's death (and preceding that, Apple's) been predicted? And how many times has it actually hap…

If you think a Linked List Item (on DF) is the same as a reference to a source article contained within an article that itself regurgitates wholesale the content of the linked piec…

If anyone ever needs an example of biased poll design... ;-)

> I'm sure that a lot of people with flash video delivery systems did not particularly enjoy converting to h.264 Flash is a wrapper, not a codec, and has in fact supported H.264 en…

The "what" being that, assuming the ideal is a move away from proprietary technologies like Flash, supporting WebM alone in the current environment is likely to have the opposite e…

True, but Vorbis is an audio spec, not a video one. Theora, which would arguably be more on MPEG-LA's radar, is used in only a handful of titles: http://wiki.xiph.org/Games_that_us…

The difference being that Vorbis has almost no commercial traction. If large, popular services (like YouTube, for instance) decided to go with a codec like WebM, the MPEG-LA might …

I'm surprised Gruber didn't also pose a question about the murky patent landscape re: WebM. If Google decides to throw their full weight behind WebM, it wouldn't be at all surprisi…