Steve Jobs has published an open letter on the exclusion of Flash on
all their mobile products:
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/?AID=10480621
Although I see the Complex potentially benefiting from Flash (ambient
projects), I have come to agree with the difficulties Flash presents
after digging into the technology a bit more, see earlier post: http://bit.ly/9EXYHA
Now here's a question I haven't answered yet: can a Flash video be
viewed without the rest of the Flash platform (which includes non-
media components)? I.e. could Flash video itself be standardized so
that a "simple player" could be made with a standard video codec and
html/css/javascript for the rest of the player?
This approach appears the only direction that would satisfy both Adobe
and Apple.
-- Owen
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