There isn't a shred of doubt in my mind Apple's denial of flash is at the very least convenient for, and reinforced by, the business benefits of doing so.
However, Steve is not wrong. HTML5, CSS, and JS are 'open' and flash isn't, no matter what adobe says. I get the feeling those who want flash on the iPhone for openness / fairness / etc reasons treat flash as an alternative for the app store. Flash could be, and for reasons that have been rehashed, apple doesn't want this. But for the web - flash has no place in the web. Lastly, and this seems to be skipped (though I've been saying it before in earlier threads), the "full web" argument is just silly. Videos can be done better in <video> tags (and this isn't difficult at all), and for just about every other flash usage on the web, as Steve's note mentions, it just doesn't work with touch interaction. Half the flash websites use mouse-over effects, which is going to be impossible or rather awkward on a touch device, and so on and so forth. Of course you can write flash apps that can work just fine on a touch device, but that doesn't jive with the 'full web' argument at all. Whether an iPhone has flash or not, a site that uses flash that isn't specifically updated to handle the touch interface instead of a mouse interface isn't going to work right on it. Which gets back to the fairness / openness / alternatives model for allowing flash on the iPhone, but there it is a different story and we know that apple simply won't let it happen. This is of course a bad thing, but it's within their rights. I could certainly throw a fit for business reasons (my future is more rosy if there's less lock-in), but I can't really work up the ire when it's one closed system against another. From a purely fairness standpoint I don't really see the point in trying to bully apple into allowing an equally closed alternative. On Apr 29, 5:44 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
