not sure how this is a win for consumers in any way. only explanation that makes any sense to me is it's an attack on iOS (which uses H.264)
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:41 AM, work only <[email protected]> wrote: > Well Google needs to drop Flash, Flash users H.264 for video hardware > decoding. > > Can have it both ways :) > > > > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Karsten Silz <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Jan 12, 1:22 pm, Chess <[email protected]> wrote: >> > If they really wanted to force the issue make YouTube WebM only. >> >> They certainly could, but I think that would render YouTube rather >> unusable on all current smartphones / tablets due to lack of hardware >> decoding (either dropped frames or bad battery life). And I don't >> think you can add hardware decoding in a software update to today's >> smartphones / tablets. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
