[exsf0859]

Besides animation and games, Flash was also used for streaming video and video conferencing.

iPhone customers were so desirable that, over time, the video streaming sites had to support Apple's video streaming format. They would have also supported Apple's video conferencing app, but I think Apple was unable to open-source the protocols for the video conferencing format, due to patent issues.

[duskwuff]

> had to support Apple's video streaming format

It's a little weird to call an open standard (like H264) "Apple's format".

[lultimouomo]

H264 is not a streaming format. HLS is, and it is pretty much "Apple's format". It's pretty backwards, and everyone was forced to support it because it was the one streaming format you could use in iStuff.

[Evidlo]

H264 isn't open though, depending on your definition of open