How sad. Apple has 80 billion dollar in cash - and are unable to pay someone to write a standard JSON parser - for a language they want other developer to adopt. Do they expect unpaid developers to make one for them ?
Couple of commenters have mentioned "proprietary plugins" in regard to HTML5 DRM video, but isn't that wrong? I thought the point was that it gives vendors access to everything they need via javascript API's included with the browser (Removing the need for silverlight or flash to get access to encrypted streams and so on)?
Sounds like a message during checkout (click checkout and instead of confirmation of order get a message explaining the change, and have to click checkout/confirm or something) would be helpful to alleviate this problem.
> It is worth pointing out that the EIA Natural Gas Report comes out weekly (every Thursday at 10:30) and the market reacts within a few milliseconds. This is because the report centers on one number which makes it easy for machines to process and take action.