Regardless of how apple rates the importance of #6 vs the other #5, I'm making the observation that the first 5 are more than enough to disprove the notion that adding a flash runtime will somehow make the iP* devices part of the "full web". And, as an addendum, that trying to force apple's hand in allowing a competitor on its turf seems like a bad fight to pick, given that flash really isn't doing the future of the web any favours.
On Apr 29, 9:19 pm, RogerV <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > 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.
