Apple has made a lot of practical pushes on this topic and was heavily engaged in the HTML5 standard codec debate. Wiki has a good writeup of it: https://en.wik

Apple has made a lot of practical pushes on this topic and was heavily engaged in the HTML5 standard codec debate. Wiki has a good writeup of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video#Supported_video_and_audio_formats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video#Supported_video_an.... If I remember, they were basically arguing against Google as it favored codecs that put costs on consumers, not the servers? Anyone remember this? I think video patents have pretty much patented all the basics making new standards nearly impossible. So, organizations are stuck waiting to be sued if they adopt a codec. Apple seems to be waiting.