The battle lines have been drawn. It's one side or the other. Apple or Adobe. The iPhone or Flash. It's time for everyone to choose. Well, everyone but YouTube. That's one of the nice things about being a Google-owned company: you do whatever works for you. In the case of YouTube, that means supporting both HTML5 and Flash, Adobe and Apple.
The company's API blog on Wednesday issued a statement on the subject, addressing some of the already much discussed shortcoming of Flash and HTML5 alike.
"We've been excited about the HTML5 effort and
YouTube utilizes HTML5 to deliver video content to devices without Flash support (read: the iPhone, iPad, and a number of other mobile devices). For most systems, however, the video site still relies heavily on Adobe's software and, according to the company, that support is not likely to go away any time soon.
"Today, Adobe Flash provides the best platform for YouTube's video distribution requirements," wrote Harding, "which is why our primary video player is built with it."
This post originally appeared on AppScout.