YouTube's Conversion To WebM: Why It Matters To Social Mobile

How many of your friends have the same smartphone that you use? If smartphones become our primary computers and the only way one accesses social networks, then to be able to share things like video with our friends it is important that video can play on our friend’s smartphones, regardless of the phone’s operating system. Today this is not the case because Flash, which accounts for the majority of the video on the Internet today, is not supported by the iPhone.