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Do You Know What Your Stock Positions Really 'Delivered'?

So out of these stocks, which ones are you projecting as winners and losers using your analytics software? Does it work for horse races too?

Flash Player: Apple's Blind Spot?

Completely correct Kontra!

Flash will go the way of the tape player and VHS tape. (In Tech, that's what it is, compared to what's available today)

Additionally, YouTube uses OPEN H.264, not Flash. Google did this once the iPhone came out. Flash is old proprietary technology which is no way superior to H.264, HTML-4, MPEG4, AAC, etc. The web has a lot of clean up to do, but the motivations are now there to do it.

iTunes, Apple, & Google are all about supporting the open standards and codecs.

Cheers!


On Feb 17 06:08 AM Kontra wrote:

> Flash versus Open
>
> Perhaps one thing we can all agree on is that the future of the web,
> mobile or otherwise, will be more or less open. That would be HTML,
> MP3, H.264, HE-AAC, and so on. These are not proprietary Adobe products,
> they are open standards…unlike Flash.
>
> In confusing codecs with UI, Wilson keeps asking, “why is it tha[t]
> most streaming audio and video on the web comes through flash players
> and not html5 based players?” The answer is rather pedestrian: HTML5
> is just ramping up, but Flash IDE has been around for many years.
> Selling Flash IDE and back-end server tools has been a commercial
> focus for Adobe, while Apple, for example, hasn’t paid much attention
> to QuickTime technologies and promotion in ages. It’s thus reflected
> in adoption patterns.
>
> Hopefully, this summary will clear Wilson’s blind spot:
>
> Apple is betting on open technologies (as it makes money on hardware)
> while Adobe (which only sells software) is betting on wrapping up
> content in a proprietary shackle called Flash.
>
> From:
>
> Does "A VC" have a blind spot for Apple?
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