Re: Insanely Simple the book and Steve Jobs.

[Bill Davis] "It's clear you're a software engineer. I'm not. So I'll defer to you or others who've examined the code inside X and would know if it's as "sloppy" as you're publicly stating. "

I don't have to be a software engineer to see bugs when I run into them on a daily basis. And that related to lots of software from Apple. That's only half the problem. The issue is that a lot of those bugs are there for years and years - unfixed.


[Bill Davis] "I would have imagined that you understood that my fundamental point was the the many issues (like transition luminance value shifts) that were problems left over from Quicktime are no longer an issue in X because they jettisoned the old QT code that was causing them."

QT is a mess and I hope for the best. It remains to be seen how well all that is fixed once other apps start interacting with AV foundation. Cause at the moment it's just a phantom in the shape of QT X and FCP X. Plus a lot of the issues in QT are related to the codecs themselves. Prores has tons of Gamma issues, in Windows not even QT Player can play it back without shifts. DnxHD or Cineform in QT wrapper has none of that. Again, not related to the architecture per se but specific coding and bugs that are simply left unfixed.

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