ePresence on iPhone?

It didn’t take too long before another round of the media format war begun.  After pushing Windows Media, Real and QuickTime off the Web, Adobe established a de-facto monopoly in this market.  We waited for two more years and then, after learning that non-Flash presentations are no longer produced by vast majority of our customers, we decided to retire the legacy encoders and focus our efforts on user experience, building the UI around Flash.  I must say that after releasing Flash-based ePresence v.6 we are getting nothing but positive feedback. The video quality has improved dramatically, the UI got much faster and sleeker, and a single encoder Capture application became more reliable and user friendly.

Of course, it would be foolish to expect that Adobe’s competitors would just let Flash dominate without a fight. Apple has made it very clear that Flash will never play on their mobile devices. Google has introduced non-Flash version of YouTube (now in beta) and also promised a new video codec (VP8) for Chrome soon.  Microsoft has endorsed h.264 support for the future version of IE, and, of course, SilverLight. Clearly, these companies will try to join the efforts around HTML5 and change the situation.

How does this affect the ePresence development roadmap? Well, we have been in similar situations before, when IE was fighting Netscape, .NET tried to beat Java, Windows Media pushed away Real, etc.  We have managed to deliver a reliable multi-channel presentation capture solution before and we will definitely succeed in the future to bring a product that just works, making the competition among technology vendors transparent to our customers.  Therefore,  we recently made a decision to support HTML5 in the future. We are also working on supporting Apple mobile devices. We are determined to stay and deliver, whether there is a format war or peace.

Peter Wolf, CEO.

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