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Originally Posted by Silock
Honestly, I don't think Apple really gives a **** whether it's VP8 or H264. They just don't want whatever it is to cause battery or performance issues. Their main concern is the end-user experience. Lacking Flash isn't necessarily good, but having a device with poor battery life and bad Flash performance is probably seen as the worse option than none at all.
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I can understand that BUT Flash 10.1 is FAR superior to previous versions and they could have dealt with it... either way, it's the WAY they did it that irks me...
BUT for the sake of all my arguing.. the reason I bring up VP8 is simply to prove my original point from ages ago... the HTML5 standard is far from settled and if Google heats the debate back up... media companies will take a wait and see approach rather than spend resources converting to one or the other with no clear idea of the outcome.
Apple's BEST move if Google pushes VP8 is to make a HARD push to get BOTH supported by HTML5 and then quickly build support into their machines... or even to give up on h264 and fully throw support behind VP8... ANYTHING to get the debate settled and everyone to move forward with HTML5
Once we KNOW which way to move, everyone in the industry can get down to business with no excuses left to dally.