Right on! Apple clearly wants to take over the world.
They won't make it but they are surely giving it a try.
(And for a brief interval a while back , they
had more money than the US government).
Sometimes when you feel paranoid, someone really
is out to get you.
Robert
On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Stef
Ronald C.F. Antony wrote:
Again, it's FUD when people think Apple is needlessly proprietary. As
a matter of fact, when it comes to standards Apple does more to push
them than just about any other force in the market. Others push things
like Flash,
Think again of Blu-Ray (movie) support on
Ronald C.F. Antony wrote:
The problem is: who still needs hardware? Unless it's incorporated into
something like an Oppo DVD/BD player, which hooks up directly to a power amp,
the hardware of choice is something like an AppleTV that gets its data stream
from a computer server, i.e. iTunes.
Ronald C.F. Antony wrote:
The Ambisonic community keeps shooting itself in the foot, because they can't
accept that OK is better than nothing, and that once OK is the accepted
standard, one can then incrementally push for higher-order extensions to an
already existing infrastructure. Instead
newme...@aol.com wrote:
Ronald:
Whiz-bang demos won't make any difference, but
adoption by Apple's iTunes Store, or something like
that would make a difference.
Very interesting! Does iTunes currently support multi-channel audio
(other than on purchased movies)?
As best I can t
Ronald C.F. Antony wrote:
There was once a slim chance of getting Apple to move on Ambisonics, as both
some fundamental interest by some of Apple's CoreAudio group and relentless
lobbying by an unnamed list member in an unnamed Apple product beta test group
produced a slight opening of maybe
