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A comment on Chromium Blog: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change. Parent comment

Re:Chromium Blog: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change by chc on Friday January 14, 2011 @07:33PM (#2106019)
Because Apple almost completely controls the iOS platform, and they will not allow you to write a new codec for their browser.
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Re:Chromium Blog: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change by rmc on Saturday January 15, 2011 @01:03PM (#2107396)
If WebM takes off Apple will have to add support. Otherwise the ipad will be "that thing that doesn't play videos"
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