There is no question that the h.264 standard is not “free”. A group known as MPEG_LA holds the patent and according to Wikipedia, it is free for end users to use until December 31, 2015.

As the Free Software Foundation states, it may be more widely published and implemented as a standard than flash, but it is no more “free”. I am most curious to know if Apple stands to gain financially from bullying the entire Internet community into using H.264 rather than flash?

Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.

I haven’t seen the Google Nexus One yet, but I’ve listened to and read reviews.  From what I’ve heard, if I were to give up my iPhone, this would be the phone I would choose.  Jeff Jarvis on a recent This Week in Google, however, pointed out that the Google app for the iPhone provides [...]