What's it all about, Alfie?

When I read this this morning I was stunned. Really. Stunned. I can't imagine what they are thinking. They include Flash in Chrome, and it's Adobe's IP, but they won't continue to support H.264 because it's what... supported by Apple? What gives? It's already there... it's already working... but they are going to take it out. I could understand if they took out all plugins or codecs. But they aren't. Just H.264.

I find it hard to believe that the engineers decided to do this. I also have a hard time believing that Google is running short on funds to support the work. And it's not like Chrome is not mature - it's polished when compared to many, and certainly in the mature category now.

Just stunning. Really.

Bad move.

[1/13] UPDATE: I could not have said it better than this post on Slashdot. Amazing. Painful.

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