Holiday Roundup: Silverlight and iPhone, Handbrake, Black Friday Success and Cyber Monday
Here are a number of news items that have been circulating over the holiday weekend:
- One story that made headlines was a report that implied that Microsoft had Silverlight working on the iPhone. Silverlight is Microsoft's Flash-competitor. The headline, however, was a bit misleading as the technology demonstrated simply involved Microsoft converting Silverlight video realtime into a format already supported by the iPhone. No actual on-iPhone software actually supported Silverlight.
- Handbrake 0.9.4 - A major update to a popular Mac video encoding application was released. The latest version of Handbrake delivered improvements to H.264 encoding as well as 64-bit support. Detailed discussion of the latest build has been talking place in our forums.
- ComScore released results from Black Friday's online sales and found that online spending was up 11% over the previous year with an estimated $595 Million spent. Apple.com was singled out as one of the top 5 online retailers. Apple reportedly saw traffic growth of 39% year-over-year.
- CyberMonday sales have kicked in and remain summarized in our sales chart. There are still significant discounts on Macs available for today.
- One story that made headlines was a report that implied that Microsoft had Silverlight working on the iPhone. Silverlight is Microsoft's Flash-competitor. The headline, however, was a bit misleading as the technology demonstrated simply involved Microsoft converting Silverlight video realtime into a format already supported by the iPhone. No actual on-iPhone software actually supported Silverlight.
- Handbrake 0.9.4 - A major update to a popular Mac video encoding application was released. The latest version of Handbrake delivered improvements to H.264 encoding as well as 64-bit support. Detailed discussion of the latest build has been talking place in our forums.
- ComScore released results from Black Friday's online sales and found that online spending was up 11% over the previous year with an estimated $595 Million spent. Apple.com was singled out as one of the top 5 online retailers. Apple reportedly saw traffic growth of 39% year-over-year.
- CyberMonday sales have kicked in and remain summarized in our sales chart. There are still significant discounts on Macs available for today.
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29 months ago
Silverlight is used for Netflix and it runs real well. I certainly wouldn't mind seeig this being used as an alternative to Flash.
29 months ago
Silverlight is used for Netflix and it runs real well. I certainly wouldn't mind seeig this being used as an alternative to Flash.
I would still prefer HTML 5 with MP4 H.264 or better yet, .OGG so theres no excuse not to include it.
29 months ago
Handbrake is awesome. Now thats its 64bit and has a revamped cropping interface, its even better. Silverlight is pointless, i have not encountered it on any websites other than Microsoft.com. Apple, just allow Flash. My iTouch has poor battery life anyway...
29 months ago
Silverlight is used for Netflix and it runs real well. I certainly wouldn't mind seeig this being used as an alternative to Flash.
Aren't Silverlight apps for iPhone already possible, or being introduced at the moment? But they require you to fully compile the program, rather than compiling into bytecode and using a VM to execute it.As far as I'm aware Apple is still very much against any JIT apps with the exception of javascript, which is a perfectly reasonable stance as they can control the VM for javascript in Safari to keep performance on it good enough to avoid the iPhone battery disappearing in a puff of smoke.
29 months ago
Silverlight is used for Netflix and it runs real well. I certainly wouldn't mind seeig this being used as an alternative to Flash.
I agree with you 100%, i'd like seeing this on my iphone/ipod.
also would actually want flash to work on my iphone finally. tired of trying to look at websites that wont work properly on it.
29 months ago
HandBrake even :p
Handbrake is misspelled! It should be HandBrake, not Handbreak.
That's the first thing I noticed as well. At least it's spelled correctly in the headline. HandBrake is the best video conversion software created thus far, and it's still free!
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