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I really enjoyed that "open standards" event, which was broadcast via HTML5 that only worked in Safari and on Mac.
Didn't they submit this format for standardization a year or so ago? If so, you can't blame Apple that others have not implemented it.
I really enjoyed that "open standards" event, which was broadcast via HTML5 that only worked in Safari and on Mac.
They have long been sitting on one of the strongest and certainly most profitable "social" networks.
Now they have used it to do one of the most classical goals in business. Profit maximization.
I don't even think this is something other companies can learn much from as most seem to be walking around like lemmings trying to incorporate features to grow their (non-paying) following.
Be patient for growth not for profit as Clayton Christensen says.
I really enjoyed that "open standards" event, which was broadcast via HTML5 that only worked in Safari and on Mac.
HTML5 is a markup language, not a streaming transport. Apple used HTTP Live Streaming, which is tech they're trying to push as a new standard. It has certain technical benefits:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming
I believe the VLC nightly build has support for it, but Apple's not going to go out and tell people "Hey, go use this weird beta client to access the stream."
One of these days I hope they'll add the ability for me to sync my iPhone to iTunes at home and listen to it on another PC (most specifically the office) from my iPhone via iTunes without some horrible hack and manually managing my music collection.
I was under the impression that this already worked. You can't copy the files off (without some 3rd party software) but I thought you could browse and play via iTunes. I remember it being clunky enough that you might not want to do it regularly but I thought it worked for playing a couple of tunes.
I actually just stopped putting music on my iPhone because it was too much of a hassle to do every time that key changed. I just use Pandora or GrooveShark now instead.
It's interesting that this is only for music. You can see this being just as applicable for movies and tv shows - and of course apps. Presumably this is a toe in the water and they'll extend it if it works. But this certainly has lots of potential for extension.
Its going to be interesting to see what effect this has on last.fm ...It doesnt have appear to have my favorite last.fm feature, scrobbling, but I admit I use last.fm little besides that. Particular, the fact that it ties in to iTunes purchases could be very popular.
On the other hand, you'd have all these geeks accusing Apple of collecting data for nefarious purposes, just like many of the comments here.
Regardless, Ping looks great and I can't wait to try it out.
Can I please have an application that just does the one simple thing it's supposed to? I feel like soon both iTunes and GMail are going to try to order my groceries for me.
Not an Emacs user, I take it?
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Didn't they submit this format for standardization a year or so ago? If so, you can't blame Apple that others have not implemented it.
Is that also your stance towards OfficeXML?