No, fuck you, Apple. I'm not going to download your shitty player just to watch your shitty ad.
Posted Jun 7, 2011, 5:21 PM UTC
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I remember the good old days, when going to Real's website would serve up videos in Microsoft WMV, and going to Microsoft's website would use Bink video...
Seriously, are you really whining about Apple promoting Apple's products on Apple's website?
This is r/applesucks. What the fuck are you doing on apple.com?
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I know I'm in applesucks but what is it about QuickTime that makes it suck?
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HTML5 video was invented to solve this problem, and Apple is all about HTML5 support in Safari. The video in question is probably h.264 video in a Quicktime container rather than in an mp4 container, which is what would be needed to play it in the browser without a plugin. Plus, the actual Quicktime player is crappy software. This shows a halfhearted commitment to open standards.
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QuickTime forces itself on your mime types and is slow to load. Plus it installs the Apple Updater which tries to force other Apple software on you like Bonjour, Safari, etc.
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Pretty sure bonjour is Kodak.
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Nope, Apple. Bonjour on wikipedia
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I just thought Kodak due to it having come with my Kodak printer but not my HP.
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Which is why I don't know why they hate Flash so much.
It seems that Apple has no problem with Apple making proprietary useless bloatware for their OS, yet they are crucifying Adobe for making proprietary bloatware that actually has uses.
It's because Apple can't have control over Flash games, apps, etc.