Irrelevant, Roger. You're seeing flash as an alternative to apps and the app store. That's a discussion by itself but whyever would Apple just give away that power to flash? They aren't stupid. I'm not going to get riled up about this either, it's opening up the walled garden by introducing an alternative equally closed environment. No point there.
There's a legitimate point to be made if denying flash means iP* devices cannot browse the 'full web', but Flash-based *SITES* of today *ARE* stuck in the desktop web. A blue brick is less annoying than a site that just doesn't seem to react to you because of the way it works with mouse-over and all that. On May 3, 9:00 am, RogerV <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 2, 6:51 am, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So has ActiveX. I don't think that's even relevant to the discussion. > > The point is Flex and AIR are very capable development platforms. > Steve says they're somehow intrinsicaly stuck in desktop computing > era. Yet Apple took Mac OS X and re-adapted it with a new UI geared to > touch screen mobile devices. Perhaps Flex and AIR for mobile can > likewise be embellished with gestures and other features to suit a > touch screen UI. The Flex SDK can likewise be expanded with APIs for > interaction with accelerometers, GPS, etc. At any rate, the mobile > Flex and AIR for Android are in beta and will be released this summer. > So we'll see then. > > -- > 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.
