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there were some bad decisions, chief among which was the decision to NOT to use flash as the platform. Kinda the same mistake they made with the original Google Video.

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Surely these days they could pretty much have used javascript, with canvas etc. No flash==even bigger win.

Why?

Because the new crop of internet devices don't have flash?

And they somehow support Canvas?

Yes. WebKit invented <canvas>.

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