>There is no deep conspiracy behind Apple's and Microsoft's support for HTML5 video and h.264. Who said there's a deep conspiracy theory? Saying "they aren't b

>There is no deep conspiracy behind Apple's and Microsoft's support for HTML5 video and h.264. Who said there's a deep conspiracy theory? Saying "they aren't being entirely open with their motives" is an observation that is almost always true of almost all businesses. This is a classic conflict of interest. It's like finding out that your doctor who is telling you that you really need to remove a kidney has a lucrative side business selling kidneys. This is really all so ridiculous, though. The video thing is a giant red herring -- the truth is that Flash as a video container is almost always used to thinly serve up h.264 these days. Yes, the stream should be decoupled from the player. No doubt. Yet that blanket idea about video is used to mask the incredible gap that HTML5 currently has on mobile devices.