Those who don't may find that video sites like YouTube and Vimeo do not work - although the sites could serve HTML5-compatible video codecs that Apple's Safari can play - but also that huge amounts of video and animations on smaller sites do not function because they use Flash player and do not have non-Flash codecs. The surprising and unannounced move means that buyers will have to figure out how to download the player and plugin on any of the computers that they buy - a process which Apple has not simplified by including any 'click to install' links. Some rights reservedĪpple has escalated its war with Adobe's Flash Player by stopping including the browser plugin on the Macintosh computers that it sells.
