Google abandons the H.264 standard in Chrome, as the property of Apple will be the next YouTube?

Google has decided that the next version of the Chrome browser no longer support the H.264 standard, citing, albeit indirectly, as Apple's "owner" of this video-encoding format. Obviously, this will permit the development of the Adobe Flash Player, with all the positives and negatives that this format will bring. So if Google decided to abandon the .264 H in Chrome is likely to happen with YouTube?



Here's what Google said daMike Jazayeri:

We expect rapid innovation of web-platform multimedia in the coming years, and for this we are focused and we are investing in technologies that, freed from all binding license, are based on the concept of open source. In this way, we decided to change the support for HTML 5 in Chrome using the codec already supported by the Chromium project. H.264 plays an important role with regard to video playback, but our goal is to open the way for innovations. For this reason, this coding system will be removed from Chrome and replaced with completely open format and accessible by anyone.

The question arises, therefore, if new policies are also applied to H.264 video in YouTube. The "cold war" between Google and Apple continues, and as always, probably, the losers are just users.