iTunes Could Use CoreVideo
Posted October 26th, 2005 @ 01:54pm by Erik J. Barzeski
The iTunes Music store employs a lovely little reflection on its videos in preview mode, but the video loses the reflectivity when playing:
What a great opportunity to use CoreVideo! I mean, c'mon Apple, put some effort into it! The videos in the store would look so much better with that lovely little reflection.
Posted 26 Oct 2005 at 2:22pm #
Probably Apple did not do it because iTunes is cross-platform nowadays. So I guess the rendering engine for the store content does not use OS X-specific technologies.
Posted 26 Oct 2005 at 2:39pm #
iTunes looks more Windows-like now with the freakish corners and odd user interface features. Adding something too Mac-like would ruin the expectations of Windows users who want the generic and crappy uniform look for their OS of "choice." 😉
Posted 27 Oct 2005 at 5:36pm #
Also, it'd run quite slowly on older Macs.