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by Veliladon 1553 days ago
VP9 is an open format but can still be encumbered by patents. $20 says Google gave Apple an indemnity agreement for VP9 support for YouTube only which is why VP9 is locked down so hard in iOS. So if Apple enables VP9 and gets sued for patent infringement for their VP9 implementation Google will have to pay for some or all of the legal costs and/or judgements resulting from them.