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Originally Posted by scottjl
nbc has flip-flopped on similar decisions before..
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I'm guessing this will last about as long as their absence from the iTunes video store did a few years ago...
Maybe not, though. This could be a play to make the eventual Hulu app and subscription service more enticing. Fox doesn't seem in any hurry to make its video iPad-compatible either.
On a semi-related note, I had to spend 3 hours today troubleshooting my Flash CS4 install - it suddenly decided to stop exporting .swf files. It would either crash completely when I tried to publish, or simply fail to output the file. It was eventually resolved by a complete uninstall/reinstall (which is a whole other circle of hell due to the horrible CS4 installation program). Of course, along the way I had to retry the install three times because it kept choking on a font it thought was corrupted. This is just a couple of weeks after I did a routine Acrobat update and it hosed my licensing information (and refused to take the correct serial number) because I failed to open another CS4 app
before opening the updated Acrobat. That required another uninstall/reinstall and 2 wasted hours.
When people accuse me of being down on Flash because I'm a drooling Jobs sheeple, I have to laugh. Part of the reason I'm down on Flash is because I've used Adobe products virtually every day for the last 15 years, and since they acquired Macromedia, their focus has shifted to pushing Flash as a platform and loading up their overpriced, forced-bundle CS with useless bloatware while making only incremental improvements to the core apps I actually care about. And on top of that, implementing one of the most customer-hostile, bug-ridden DRM systems known to man.
Sorry. It was a frustrating afternoon, needed to vent.
