Most software producers wouldn’t dream of pulling carefully crafted, useful features out of their products – but of course Google loves to prove it’s different. It feels wrong to me – even though it might negatively impact the uptake of Chrome and even though they are doing it for the ‘right’ reasons of openness – because they own You Tube they have too much control over codec choice on the web. Surely a codec should evolve and be chosen for it’s technical abilities?
Critics have branded Google as a “hypocrite” over its decision to axe support for video codec H.264 in its Chrome browser.
Google said it planned to cut support for the widely-used H.264, which is popular with both Apple and Microsoft, in favour of more open codecs.
