Destiny Media Tech Inc (DSNY)

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The companies installing H.265 decoders are paying 25 million license fees - assuming that customers will need that decoder. Every hardware and distributor of H.265 codex pays up before they can use it. Even though it is installed on devices, video publishers don't want to use it because they don't want to pay the encoder licensing fee. Only the biggest customers bite that apple since their cost per user is low.

The companies installing VP9 decoder aren't paying license fees, but the VP9 codec hasn't been adopted since there are concerns with VP8 codec patents that might violate H.264 patents. Therefore, companies do not want to adopt VP9 as a standard only to later be charged as patent violators by HEVC, et al. This statement comes from the Daala project lecture in Australia earlier this month. It is also backed up by Google employee statements that said VP9 isn't used much outside of Google. VP9 only works on some browsers too.

The risks of using VP9 is driving Mozilla to fund the Daala project, but they won't have a first release until 2016 or later.

Jobs banned Flash due to bugs more than anything else. Maybe battery life too in 2007 when battery technology was using early Li-ion technology with fire risk and short-life spans. This is 2014. Batteries are much better now. Charging is faster and there are plug-ins ports almost everywhere. Tomorrow - batteries might hold up for a week or more - who knows. Graphene and Graphite components can potentially enable batteries to recharge almost instantly.

Your arguments might have been valid seven years ago, but not now.