Sort of makes one wonder if Apple knows Adobe isn't tied to a specific platform whereas Apple by definition is.
Very insightful - a specific technology makes that technology dwindle, it's an unstoppable force. Adobe is more loose footed than Apple in the current bruhaha - creating the 10.1 player to work well across a variety of devices vs a locked down business model. Consumers and Adube won't give a f**k whether the creative output from their products is through HTML5, the Flash Player or some other technology. That said, if WebKit works identically across platforms, Adobe has nothing to lose by adapting the products to target it. The only way I can see this making sense for Apple is if they're aiming to eclipse Adobe with an authoring tool. And if it exports to Android, RIM, etc, well I'll adopt to it. But it seems to me Adobe is ahead in that game. (Sent from my Mac Mini, haha) ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt S. [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:29 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Oh the irony Absolutely. Where HTML5 can replace Flash, it should. I have no problem with that. I actually think HTML5 is pretty cool. I just dont think it needs to be an either/or question, and find the struggle-to-the-death approach that Jobs is championing ludicrous, and find alot of the "Flash is dead because..." statements to be based on false assumptions. Yeah, of course, if you ban it from devices, it will die, but that isnt exactly allowing the technology to evolve organically. Bad technology dies under its own weight. No one needed to drown Netscape or Director or Cobol in the bathtub in order to get rid of them. If Flash's day is done, it will die soon enough on its own. All Jobs has done is convince a whole swath of decision-makers that Flash is toxic and shouldnt be touched, even in cases where Flash is actually the superior option, and thats just a shame. How many game developers are now being asked "We want to do something like http://www.gettheglass.com/....but NOT in Flash, because Flash is dead. You can do that in HTML5 right? And it needs to run perfectly on the iPad". .m On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll say this again: I see no financial benefit to Adobe for keeping the > Flash Player the standard for a rich Internet. If HTL5 + JS can do everything > - or part of everything - the Flash Player can do. There's no harm done to > Adobe by adding a "Export as HTML5" option. We've even seen it demonstrated > with the Smart Paste videos. > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
