Comment by chubot

Classic example from Google: spending $106 million to release free video codecs in 2009. Video codecs are a complement of YouTube, and MP4 licensing fees were apparently enough of a barrier to justify this purchase.

https://searchengineland.com/google-buys-video-infrastructur...

With 9 years of hindsight, how did it turn out? I'm honestly not sure, as I haven't followed the state of video codecs. It seems like a lot of video is viewed on Apple devices, which only have hardware support for MP4?