On Apr 29, 6:22 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I think he states that clearly in the last point, labeled as the most important: He doesn't want to be at the mercy of a third party in between Apple and developers for a number of reasons outlined there. I think the one reason that was missing is Flash would allow users to essentially bypass the App store with potentially higher quality apps than you can do with HTML 5 now, which I'm sure plays a role here, too. > Videos can be done better in <video> tags (and this isn't difficult at all) This isn't fully true, because there's whole ecosystem around Flash video players that gives you DRM (important for the big content owners) and now adaptive streaming (gives you high or low bandwidth streams, depending on your connection speed, and updates this regularly during viewing), inserts ads into the video stream and measures how much of the video you seen and where you fast forward etc. I'm sure most, if not all, can be replaced with HTML 5, but I'm saying that replacing Flash video is more than just putting out an H. 264 video link. -- 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.
