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Fall of the mighty
Authored by: greed on Monday, August 20 2012 @ 03:45 PM EDT
You should cheer, a little bit, anyway.

The rise of non-Microsoft products, even with Apple being Evil, has reminded
everyone of the difference between "data" and "programs".

To get stuff to work with iOS, people had to let the data be accessible In Other
Ways. Non-Microsoft programs reading Word and Excel files. E-mail servers
running SMTP and IMAP (preferably over TLS). Relatively standard HTTP-based Web
servers.

Pictures in iPhoto are just JPEGs, PNGs, or other standard files. (Or
camera-vendor-specific RAW files like .CR2.)

This is the program-independent data world some of us thought was going to
happen in the late 1980s, with things like ECA's IFF format. (A modified
version serves as the QuickTime MooV format, a simplified version of MooV is the
MPEG 4 container format. Matroska works on similar container principles with an
infinite-size capability.)

Problem is, IFF never took on "office" formats... and it was quite
some time before Open Document arrived.

If nothing else, Apple has proven it is possible.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

And Android outsells Apple.....
Authored by: tiger99 on Monday, August 20 2012 @ 07:41 PM EDT
Linus once joked about world domination. It has arrived, except that most users
of phones don't know, or care. They just don't realise that Android runs on a
Linux kernel.

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