Thread: Steve Jobs' open letter about Adobe Flash
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2010-04-29 , 18:32
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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
I believe it was (and still may be) a bit immature. Last I read anyway... there were performance issues to resolve.
apple and nokia presented disagreement with the choice.

apple have a vested interest in H264:
http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/...Licensors.aspx

and nokia was (is?) probably worried that they did not have any phones that could decode ogg in hardware.

btw, H264 is as much if not a greater performance hog then theora, but is helped along by DSP, GPU or other dedicated hardware.
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