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Originally Posted by Kolenka
... but if they want to kill their format, I don't need to stick around to support it, and I have a feeling Apple would move to something else if that happened as well (so much of their work is based around H.264, the logistics of collecting royalties would be a PiTA)....
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MPEG-LA extended its decision not to demand royalties until 2015.
But if H.264 has anywhere near the adoption rate of Flash, it will be very hard to dislodge it, because of the enormous investment such change requires.
Apple is one of the H.264 patent-holders.