Just bought Flix and am pissed that I haven't received my password yet - 1 hour and counting....

However it gave me the time to browse this forum.

Flash in v. 4 was all excited about embedded video - and its cursory embedded .mov system was fine. However in 5 they gave quicktime the farm by allowing quicktime to embed flash in its files, but stripping that capability from it's own player. This was obviously a collosal mistake which their paying for now by trying to reincorporate video (though they've done a great job) in a new player which will take months to propogate. Had they done this in 5, flash video would already have reached mainstream acceptance. However now we're doing all of this 18 months late.

My question is - does anybody know the specific politics behind MM's crazy quicktime decision?