It’s a simple question with a not so simple answer. For the last few years, online video has exploded. With that explosion is the need for a high quality format that can compress all of those bits to the smallest possible sizes while retaining the most pristine quality. So far, h.264 has been the crowd favorite. But in the coming years (near coming years), the free price tag on h.264 will go away as it is a proprietary format. What then? There’s only two...

I have plenty of my own issues with the App Store and Apple’s increasingly growing iron grip surrounding the iPhone platform. But have I emailed the CEO, Steve Jobs himself and attempted to verbally attack him? No. Though some would say my often critical remarks as of late are more or less the same thing. However you feel, there’s no denying that Apple has catapulted to the forefront of countless minds for both noble and shady practices alike. Ryan Tate is...

Whether or not you feel Gizmodo operated outside of the law — or at the very least, outside of the ethics of journalism — regarding the circumstances surrounding the lost iPhone and their admission in paying for it, you can’t help but want to joke about it. And who better to make fun of Apple and corporate America than John Stewart…? On last night’s episode of The Daily Show, Stewart laid into Apple and Steve Jobs, basically calling them out...

It’s no secret that Steve Jobs hates Flash and isn’t exactly drinking buddies with Adobe’s finest developers. The once subtle, behind the scenes battle between Apple and Adobe has of late, erupted into an all out war with both sides. Name calling, finger pointing, and all out “he said she said” tactics have been resorted to. Jobs has gone on the record several times citing his distaste for Flash in general. But a new comment over the recent...

Earlier this week, Wednesday to be specific, the Almighty Apple reached their 10 billionth song downloaded from iTunes. Apple was holding a contest that whosoever downloaded the 10-billionth song from iTunes, would be graced with a $10,000 iTunes gift card. Old Jobs thought that since this was such a HUGE milestone he’d give the winner a call. Here it is, a chilly February  afternoon, you are sitting, probably watching The Price is Right(since that is what 70 year old...