On Apr 29, 9:22 am, 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. > > However, Steve is not wrong. HTML5, CSS, and JS are 'open' and flash > isn't, no matter what adobe says.
Yet in the closing section, Steve says the most important factor is to not allow porting tools for Apple's mobile device development. This is where Flash technologies of Flex and AIR compete directly with Apple's Objective-C toolkit for such development. So it's not about Internet content access standards - it's ultimately about rich app development (i.e., apps that are native to the OS platform or look and feel like they could be). So Steve admits that their greatest concern is Flash muscling in as a preferred tool for rich app development that is downloaded and run on the mobile device (as opposed to the content being consumed off of web sites). HTML5 vs Flash ==> lessor concern Flex/AIR vs Objective-C apps ==> greatest concern >From Steve's own admission of Apple's rationale it therefore looks like Adobe was not so far off the mark after all in contending the prohibition against Flash is a business decision by Apple. -- 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.
