Hulu uses flash to stream their content. There are lots of games and other web-based "apps" developed with Flash. While I don't think Flash is critical, my general sense is that Apple is just incredibly obsessed with control. They have rewritten their developer agreements to where developers can only use Apple tools to do their work. The whole image of Microsoft and IBM being the big evil empire of the '80's and '90's to me has been turned on its head. Apple is trying (and succeeding in many cases) gaining a monopoly hold in a bunch of market segments. Some of there products are truly great, but their overall corporate policies, in my opinion, are not positive. For all the heat that Google takes for being large and dominating, at least they make attempts to keep things relatively open... Palm of course has become the definition of openness in many ways over the last year, but one could also say that they were at a disadvantage already to the big guys and that being open was partially just good marketing...
Levi Wallach blog: http://twelveblackcodemonkeys.com tweet me @dvdmon (http://twitter.com/dvdmon) On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Sam Cayze <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone care to chime in on why flash on a phone is so important? I just > haven't looked into it enough; don't understand the big uproar... > > IMO: YouTube works, and the rest of the Flash stuff I see on the rest > of the web is just adverts. > > > > Not trolling, serious question. > > > > Thx. > > Sam > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
