essentially Flash allows you to stream proprietary video without worrying about someone stealing it. These companies could just as easily create iPhone apps that do the same things ... and hope they get approved. :)
On 5/6/10, Levi Wallach <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
