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Panasonic would NOT pay additional money in licensing to make less money by having their batteries last longer.

Large companies like this make sure the batteries they use aren't interchangable or standardized. They certainly don't want to make batteries that you wouldn't want to replace.

If you look at profit analysis of almost any product (like a panasonic camera), the profit margins are all in the accessories, like batteries.

I confessed my idiocy earlier above, although I do believe OpenGL provides a more efficient pipeline to the hardware itself.

I certainly stand corrected, I made the assumption that OpenGL was open source (which was incorrect)

The assertion I was intending to make was that widely used open source applications tend to be analyzed and improved by a larger community and thus are more likely to be more steamlined/efficient ("faster" was also not a correct term here to describe efficient pipelines)

Although as someone stated further down, OpenGL is not actually open source, it's an open standard. So my original point is null and void as is.

I believe my hate for Microsoft had blinded me, forgive me.

Closed source API's like DirectX won't ever be as fast as an open source API standard like OpenGL.

This is why games like Left-4-Dead2 using OpenGL run substantially faster (More FPS) (http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/133824-valve-opengl-is-fas...)