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Graphics chips with built-in WebM support are slated to ship this quarter. It's not hard to imagine that the 2012 iPhone hardware will get this ability for free

Graphics chips with built-in WebM support are slated to ship this quarter. It's not hard to imagine that the 2012 iPhone hardware will get this ability for free, even if it's only a side effect of using the same graphics chips as Android devices. Then it's just up to Apple whether to turn it on. Google appears to be laying the groundwork it can now so that the answer is more likely to be yes. This will take a few years to play out.

rimantas 16y ago
You did not answer my question.
- ashearer 16y ago
  I hope I can be forgiven for interpreting what you said as a statement, instead of as a true how-to question. My statement in reply was that this will take a few years to play out. Chrome's support doesn't make an immediate difference to you or to content publishers. Firefox doesn't support H.264 <video> either and has larger market share. So rest assured that no soldering gun is suddenly needed, and you can continue to use H.264 on your iPhone 4. Google's groundwork is supposed to come to fruition years from now, when you find an iPhone 5 or 6 already in your pocket.
  - rimantas 16y ago
    > Chrome's support doesn't make an immediate difference to > you or to content publishers. True. But FSF calls to abandon support or h.264 altogether. I don't see how that helps me.
    - ashearer 16y ago
      The FSF is calling for a strategic direction that helps their ultimate goals, which you may respect and share. But if you slavishly followed their edicts, you wouldn't have an iPhone in the first place.
- vetinari 16y ago
  You: a) may be able to persuade your vendor (Apple) to support webm in your device, b) for the time being, you are going to watch low-resolution, low-bitrate version of youtube. All higher quality streams will be webm and you can return to point a). Any further questions?

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Graphics chips with built-in WebM support are slated to ship this quarter. It's not hard to imagine that the 2012 iPhone hardware will get this ability for free

by ashearer 16y ago

rimantas 16y ago
You did not answer my question.
- ashearer 16y ago
  I hope I can be forgiven for interpreting what you said as a statement, instead of as a true how-to question. My statement in reply was that this will take a few years to play out. Chrome's support doesn't make an immediate difference to you or to content publishers. Firefox doesn't support H.264 <video> either and has larger market share. So rest assured that no soldering gun is suddenly needed, and you can continue to use H.264 on your iPhone 4. Google's groundwork is supposed to come to fruition years from now, when you find an iPhone 5 or 6 already in your pocket.
  - rimantas 16y ago
    > Chrome's support doesn't make an immediate difference to > you or to content publishers. True. But FSF calls to abandon support or h.264 altogether. I don't see how that helps me.
    - ashearer 16y ago
      The FSF is calling for a strategic direction that helps their ultimate goals, which you may respect and share. But if you slavishly followed their edicts, you wouldn't have an iPhone in the first place.
- vetinari 16y ago
  You: a) may be able to persuade your vendor (Apple) to support webm in your device, b) for the time being, you are going to watch low-resolution, low-bitrate version of youtube. All higher quality streams will be webm and you can return to point a). Any further questions?