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Facebook Is Transcoding Video For iPad

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

Stoobalou sounds another death knell for Flash video. He says "Another heavy user of Adobe's video streaming software Flash is now pandering to the all-powerful iPad. Everybody's favourite waste of time, social notworking monster Facebook, is now streaming user videos to Apple's second coming of the portable computer with no sign of Flash in sight."

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  1. Re:Were it not for Apple, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm no Apple fanboy

    In the immortal words of Yahtzee Croshaw...YES YOU ARE.

  2. Re:Were it not for Apple, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple is responsible for ALL progress in PC's. Whether it is the Intel CPU, the Windows logo, or the Linux kernel. Apple invented them all.

  3. Video-bah. Call me when they port Farmville by edremy · · Score: 3, Funny

    then I'll start to believe that Flash might die.

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    "Seven Deadly Sins? I thought it was a to-do list!"
  4. Re:Were it not for Apple, by Jurily · · Score: 2, Funny

    They don't deserve credit for killing floppies

    I'm pretty sure the early Macs generated enough of a magnetic field to do just that.

  5. Re:Were it not for Apple, by ciaohound · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess Newton wasn't all that cool

    Actually, Apple was responsible for the Newton as well, and it was hella cool, as any aging 1990's-era fanboy will tell you.

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    Oh, yeah, it's not easy to pad these out to 120 characters.
  6. Re:Were it not for Apple, by Lemmy+Caution · · Score: 3, Funny

    "This post is written in English. Would you like to translate it into RDF?"

    "The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a standard for peripheral devices. It began development in 1994 by a group of seven companies: Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple and Apple."