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Re:Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome by bane on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @12:36AM (#2095123)
1. Apple adopts WebM (which requires WebM hardware for iOS devices)

Why? Aren't the iOS devices powerful enough to software decode WebM streams?

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Re:Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome by pornel on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @06:05AM (#2095717)
They might be, but battery life is an issue.

Hopefully SIMD and GPU in high-end phones can at least partially alleviate the problem (iOS has Accelerate framework and programmable shaders).

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Re:Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome by sigzero on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @08:24AM (#2096030)
That would be incredibly slow.
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