Youtube costs; really?
H264 is native on iPhone, Mac and Windows & Adobe Flash isnt.
WebM is requires more bandwidth (equals more $$$'s) for any given quality of video (although audio performance is better and negates a small amount of this).
Never before have I seen a leading vendor remove a very popular and leading feature and then continue to gain market share..
However lets not get ahead of ourselves; Google are only talking about video played directly within the browser. YouTube predominantly uses Flash still because as another poster mentioned; adverts over the top of the video. This change has nothing to do with users desire, best technology or anything else. It may not even affect Google Chrome, it may only affect Chromium, the opensource version of the product on which Chrome is based; Google could very well add H264 back into its officially released very, much like openoffice is the basis of staroffice (on which Orace nee Sun added extra features in before release).
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