It's not specifically Safari; it's the Quicktime codec library which is bundled with Safari (and iTunes). You can just download Quicktime standalone and anything NPAPI-supporting will gain the ability to play the videos.
That would make sense, except that I have Quicktime installed, and it works fine on Apple's movie trailers site.
It's fine, I'm barking up the wrong tree here TBH. Apple makes it clear that they want you to use their products to view this developer stuff. It's the same type of lock-in that others try to do, so they're not the only guilty party. Just unfortunate when companies do that.
+1 and thanks for all the positive-toned posts and comments you have added recently (I didn't look beyond the first page). This seems to be lacking among us nowadays.
>It's fine, I'm barking up the wrong tree here TBH. Apple makes it clear that they want you to use their products to view this developer stuff.
It's also probably more convenient to them: they have this huge system for content delivery through iTunes, so they might as well use it.
That said, from a promotional aspect, it would make more sense to have the videos readily available for Windows/Linux users also, so they can lust over the development options for Cocoa/iOS.
It's not like they wont have to buy a Mac to program for it anyway, so it would do Apple no harm to lure them with openly available videos.
