system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why Google pushes open standards so hard, yet still uses Flash in some of their biggest services.

I really don't get it. They're big on HTML5, right? So why is my music constantly skipping/scratching as my old computer at work chokes on Flash while streaming from Google Music?
gpt
Flash is everywhere, HTML5 support is spotty at best. You have to give HTML5 time to acquire more browser support (and get rid of browser specific silliness *cough*webkit*cough*).

Google wants Flash to die out and to do that there needs to be a replacement for it. If they don't back a replacement it can end up being just as bad as Flash ended up. They'd prefer it to be an open standard so they don't have to pay for licenses and can help ensure support ending up everywhere.