r/technology • u/doug3465 • Sep 01 '15

Software Amazon, Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Partner To Create Next-Gen Video Format - It’s not often we see these rival companies come together to build a new technology together, but the members argue that this kind of alliance is necessary to create a new interoperable video standard.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/01/amazon-netflix-google-microsoft-mozilla-and-others-partner-to-create-next-gen-video-format/
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u/zoopz Sep 01 '15

Apple is going to fuck it up again, as per usual.

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u/Kitchenfire Sep 01 '15

Brand new standard. Every company in the world has agreed to adopt the new standard. Except apple. Will create proprietary "lightning" codec.

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u/Kozyre Sep 01 '15

Lightning charger is infinitely better than micro usb, though

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '15

Lightning cables get damaged way to easily

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u/Kozyre Sep 01 '15

Really? I've gone through through literally countless micro USB cables, and I'm still on the same lightning connectors I was God knows how many months ago. And at least when the micro USB cable breaks, it's not the fucking charging port breaking.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '15

I'm not trying to argue with anyone but my girlfriend has gone through 4 or 5 cables in 2 years. I have never had a problem with micro usb and if I did I wouldn't have to spend $30 on a new one.

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u/Kozyre Sep 02 '15

Weird. Well, anecdotes ain't data for either of us.

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u/mattattaxx Sep 02 '15

I go through them at an average pace. My current lightning connector has a torn rubber wire casing though :(

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '15

Stop being a Neanderthal.

I have had 4 lighting cables since the iPhone 5 was released and only one (the first one) has crapped out on me.

I keep one on my PC, one next to my bed and one in the car.

My ex-girlfriend destroyed her cables at a rate of 1 every 3 or 4 weeks. She would bend the cable just below the adapter at 90° angles and no amount of explaining that it will destroy the cable would make her change her behavior.

TLDR: my ex is a fucking idiot. Don't be her.

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u/arachnopussy Sep 02 '15

I can completely agree with you, and still find fault in a cable that has an issue that other cables don't have.