{"id":17213,"date":"2017-02-15T14:20:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T19:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17213"},"modified":"2017-02-15T14:20:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T19:20:22","slug":"usher-will-be-stepping-aside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/15\/usher-will-be-stepping-aside\/","title":{"rendered":"Usher Will Be Stepping Aside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/?p=4372\">Many Tricks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/?p=4372\">\n<p>QuickTime is very old, and obviously no longer updated. (It&rsquo;s so old that it&rsquo;s not even 64-bit code.) Newer video formats may cause issues, and we can&rsquo;t resolve those issues in Usher because they&rsquo;re actually in QuickTime. Given these age-related issues with QuickTime, we&rsquo;re no longer comfortable selling and supporting Usher to new buyers, so we&rsquo;ve decided it&rsquo;s retirement time.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the market size, we can&rsquo;t just delete &ldquo;old QuickTime&rdquo; and insert &ldquo;QuickTime X&rdquo; and be done with it. The two are very different, so much so that we&rsquo;d need to totally rewrite the engine that drives Usher. And that&rsquo;s a huge job&#8230;and one that wouldn&rsquo;t ever be paid back in sales, due to the limited market size.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/15\/the-curious-case-of-quicktime-x\/\">The Curious Case of QuickTime X<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/28\/what-is-apple-doing-with-quicktime\/\">What Is Apple Doing With QuickTime?<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/17\/av-foundation-and-the-void\/\">AV Foundation and the Void<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Tricks: QuickTime is very old, and obviously no longer updated. (It&rsquo;s so old that it&rsquo;s not even 64-bit code.) Newer video formats may cause issues, and we can&rsquo;t resolve those issues in Usher because they&rsquo;re actually in QuickTime. Given these age-related issues with QuickTime, we&rsquo;re no longer comfortable selling and supporting Usher to new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,30,32,1381,271,1481,97],"class_list":["post-17213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-12","tag-quicktime","tag-usher","tag-video"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17214,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213\/revisions\/17214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}