Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

3 of 277 comments (clear)

  1. 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.

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

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

    --
    "Seven Deadly Sins? I thought it was a to-do list!"
  3. 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."