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by drivebyacct2 5633 days ago
Oh I saw that, I meant more that there are millions of mobile (and non-mobile) devices that have hardware decoding that won't be able to play WebM video anywhere near as well as H.264.
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I think people change phones pretty often, especially in the smartphone market, so the mobile devices should be the quickest to support WebM.
The smartphone market is also growing quickly itself, which is why Android managed to equal the installed base of iPhones only a few months after the marketshare (i.e. current sales) rose above Apple's.