The Sad State of Streaming Video on the Mac

Boy, does not appear to be a good day to be a Mac user, does it? The computers themselves are fine, it is the Internet that is becoming less and less hospitable. Plan on watching that streaming video? Better think again!

The Internet is getting less and less friendly to Mac users who want to watch live streaming video. It’s something that’s been bugging me more over the past year, but I’ve kind of learned to accept it at this point, simply being grateful that Flip4Mac was able to handle some newer Windows Media files and that YouTube and Google Video are in a platform-agnostic flash-based video format.

The danger of this state of affairs didn’t really occur to me until I got an e-mail from a new MacBook Pro owner and former Windows user. He said he was completely pleased with the Apple laptop except… Source: Wired Blogs

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