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You are overestimating the power of Apple.

If Youtube uses native webm, with flash fallback for browsers that do not support webm and native application with low-resolution for iPhone (i.e. status quo on iOS), where do you see the problem?

Apple will have to provide a very good reason why they are sole platform vendor refusing to support webm in any way.

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> where do you see the problem?

1. iOS isn't just iPhone, but includes one of the fastest selling devices in tech history.

2. low-res for the iPhone isn't going to cut it either anymore.

3. Apple's customers are precisely the people who are most willing to pay for products. Treating them as second class web citizens is the worst business decision possible.

Apple's has a minority share of the mobile device market. You are drastically overestimating the importance of a vocal minority. iOS already doesn't support Flash; won't support Flash; can't support Flash because that would threaten the closed App Store. And the rest of the world has gotten along just fine. Indeed, the only people Apple's refusal to support Flash hurts, are Apple users.

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