Just as Comcast licensed its RDK-based X1 pay TV platform to North American operators, namely Rogers and Shaw Communications in Canada, the company is accelerating steps to outsource its Flex hardware and software experience to operators across the US, in a new message that tells us Comcast has fallen out of love with Canada. People are only now starting to realize the long-term ramifications of Comcast’s video platform licensing strategy. Sure, it won’t ever reach the high-margin heights of the halcyon days of cable TV, but it is shaping up to be a futureproof supplementary revenue stream to offset the crumbling pay TV empire. It has been clear for a while that Comcast wants Flex to form the foundations of…