On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Victor Vasiliev <vasi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Brion Vibber <br...@pobox.com> wrote: >> Is it time for us to think about H.264 encoding on our own videos? >> > > Hello, Brion. > > I think it is time for Apple to support Wikipedia videos. I suggest > that we view the thing from this point of view — Apple do not run a > Top-10 site, we do.
That would be nice but is completely unrealistic. Apple doesn't support Flash and that's on a lot more sites of the world. They don't bow to pressure from major players who could make them $$$, and they are certainly not going to bow to us. Besides, the lack of wikipedia videos does not appear to be hurting their performance. Apple has a 30% market share for US smart phones[1] and their global tablet share is 58% [2] Since such a huge market share basically requires H.264 encoding, I think we should bite the bullet and go for it. If suddenly they start charging, we can drop it immediately. [1] http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/07/comscore-us-subscriber-count-reaches-100-million-android-and-i/ [2] http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/26/strategy-analytics-apple-still-owns-tablet-market-but-android/ -- Leslie Carr Wikimedia Foundation AS 14907, 43821 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
